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...holding educators accountable for school improvement, raising standards and giving parents more freedom to choose the schools their children attend. But he has also made it clear that his chief priority is to make education more accessible to the disadvantaged. He favors increases in student aid and is a staunch advocate of bilingual education. In almost every speech he decries the fact that 25% of the nation's teenagers drop out before completing high school and that 40% of Hispanics still have no diploma by age 25. "Por favor, nios, no dejen la escuela" (Please, children, do not leave school...
...staunch Republican who served as Richard Nixon's Secretary of Commerce, Peterson, 62, has been a consistent and vociferous critic of the Reagan Administration's economic policies. In 1982, while chairman of the investment banking firm Lehman Bros. Kuhn Loeb, he co-founded a bipartisan group that warned of the mounting U.S. budget deficit. Still one of the most powerful men on Wall Street, Peterson now heads the Blackstone Group, a smaller investment house specializing in corporate takeovers and leveraged buyouts. His new book, On Borrowed Time: How the Growth in Entitlement Spending Threatens America's Future, written with Neil...
...case, the Head of the Charles Regatta Committee and the Metropolitan District Committee maintain a staunch no-drinking policy on the banks and the river. Three hundred police members will be on hand to confiscate or destroy any alcohol...
...most shocking incident occurred on Sunday, Sept. 11: a band of thugs rushed into Port-au-Prince's St. Jean Bosco Church, where the Rev. Jean- Bertrand Aristide, a staunch opponent of the government, was preaching a message of revolutionary faith and defiance. Wielding machetes, revolvers and long, sharpened metal skewers known as fwen, the attackers struck at anyone in their path. As members of the congregation scrambled through doors and windows, several parishioners hustled Aristide out a side door and into an adjacent school. But eleven people were killed in the melee, and more than 80 wounded. Among...
ORIGINALLY a supporter of Rep. Jack Kemp (R-N.Y.), Schlafly is now a staunch Bush-backer. "Liberal Democrats are for higher taxes so federal bureaucrats can decide what we do and spend our money. Under George Bush's philosophy, we'll clearly get to spend more of our own money," she said...