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...Guzmán's voluminous writings - which they call "Gonzalo Thought" - though analysts believe he's still able to impart messages from his cell. For now, Shining Path's new threat seems containable: its ranks are thought to be in the hundreds rather than thousands; and the group is split between those (including Guzmán) who eventually want to turn the organization into a political force, and a smaller faction that still favors military apocalypse. Still, the new Shining Path's role model - and partner, say analysts - is the 18,000-member Revolutionary Armed Forces (farc) in neighboring Colombia...
Grumet-Morris has experience playing in a tandem. As a freshman, he split time with Will Crothers before earning the job outright in February...
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...Georgia, Clarke County schools' director of assessment Ginger Davis-Beck says that in anticipation of the revamped test, her district might split Grade 10 into a semester of geometry and a semester of Algebra II for students who didn't get to Algebra I until Grade 9; it would be an unorthodox move that could require hiring more teachers. In Ohio, curriculum specialist Jennifer Manoukian of the Sycamore school system, outside Cincinnati, feels uneasy about the prospect of grammar questions. "Research shows that direct instruction of grammar is not beneficial," she says. "The correlation between that kind of grammar instruction...
...countries have a political divide like Cambodia's. In the '90s the nation was ruled by two Prime Ministers and two Cabinets, with power split between Funcinpec and the Cambodia's People Party (headed by current Prime Minister Hun Sen). That divide still splits the country: a national election in July left Hun Sen short of the parliamentary support he needs to rule?under Cambodia's constitution, the National Assembly can't convene without a party or coalition controlling two-thirds of the votes. So far, his attempts to form a coalition have fallen through...