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...White House would be wise to read the Jeffords affair as a symptom of its own deficiencies, and a warning of dangers ahead. The White House would be foolish to see the Jeffords apostasy merely as a disruptive little treachery by an enemy within...
School testing is meant to require accountability and results from schools. Testing, particularly mandated national annual tests, implies a severe lack of trust in the public institutions. School testing is, then, a very clear symptom of a lack of trust in public schools...
FILL 'ER UP Do you feel unusually short of breath during exercise? It's a classic symptom of congestive heart failure, but you may have a form of the disease doctors barely understand. For years, heart failure was thought to have been caused by the heart's inability to pump blood efficiently. Now a study shows that half of all patients may have a different defect altogether: their hearts don't properly fill up with blood. Doctors still don't know how best to treat the problem, but they do know who is most likely to develop it: hypertensive women...
Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffery D. Sachs labeled the African AIDS epidemic a symptom of a larger socioeconomic crisis afflicting the African continent in a speech at the Kennedy School of Government last night...
...Although Sharon is likely to jam the brakes on the frenzied peace talks of the weeks leading up to the election, his victory is a symptom of the failure of the peace process, rather than its cause. The Likud leader had campaigned against what he saw as Ehud Barak's reckless handling of negotiations with the Palestinians, and has made no secret of the fact that he plans a major rewind of the peace process - his message to the Palestinians has been to disregard any offers made by the Barak government. Rather than trying to finalize a peace agreement, Sharon...