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...that the Bush Administration forced on school districts, particularly the NCLB measure, which so emphasized test scores to the exclusion of other educational goals that many experts now regard it as a failure. NCLB has become, in Duncan's estimation, such a "toxic" brand that his Education Department recently tore down the faux red schoolhouse emblazoned with the law's name that sat outside its main entrance in downtown Washington. Duncan will be instrumental in rewriting NCLB, starting with the name. "We'll probably get a really smart 10-year-old to figure this one out for us," he says...
Wednesday's enormous, killer blasts shattered more than ministry buildings in Baghdad. It also tore the tenuous hope that the country had come to a workable calm. The emerging details of the plot only infuriated a populace already outraged at a government that seems to have lost control of a security situation so soon after crowing nationalistically that it was back in charge as U.S. troops began their withdrawal...
...become a victim" of "new tactics." It does not offer details. Another letter promises to cut off the fingers of people with blue ink stains, a sign they have voted. Last week, hundreds of these letters were plastered on city walls and outside of mosques until morning police patrols tore them down...
...Tercentenary Theater’s elms fell last Saturday night and caused minor damage to Sever Hall.  The tree, which once stood between Sever Hall and Memorial Church, damaged Sever bricks, broke a window, and tore screens on its way down. Additionally, it knocked over a blue light police phone pole...
Eventually, after 27 minutes aloft, they landed safely. D'Arlandes - according to his own account - threw himself out onto the grass. Pilâtre just stood there. "We had enough fuel to fly for an hour," he said sadly. The crowd grabbed his green coat and tore it to pieces for souvenirs. He was an instant 18th century rock star...