Word: takenã
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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...this morning, 92 percent of Americans favor some sort of military action against those responsible for the attacks. Whether we like it or not, this overwhelming support guarantees that action will be taken??should President Bush ignore such demands for a forceful response and eschew military strikes, he and his party will commit certain political suicide. Those students demanding absolute nonviolence at this time turn a blind eye to the vicissitudes of policy-making in a democracy and merely make their voices all the easier to ignore...
...ways in which America’s law enforcement community works to prevent terrorism. Attorney General John Ashcroft has approached Congress with a number of proposals to expand police powers, some of which are clearly appropriate, others more questionable. But it is clear that steps must be taken??and soon—to protect Americans from harm...
Recent efforts have been taken??both on the state level and on the national level by President Bush—to hold teachers accountable for the performance of their students through testing and even to hold students back unless they can successfully pass tests. Using testing for such important decisions is often referred to as “high-stakes” testing...
...suppose some of you are so used to living in a big pond that you may take it for granted. But the sense that there are opportunities out there just waiting to be taken??the sense that you’ve got the world at your feet (or on a string, as Arlen and Koehler say)—isn’t necessarily apparent to a person growing up in a small country. And perhaps it’s just the sentimental ravings of a departing senior, but I’d like to think that that...