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...parents would rather their kids be street smart than book smart. Arne Duncan cites schools that have longer hours as being more successful, yet there are plenty that aren't. If Duncan wants so badly for poorer kids to improve, let them go to school longer. It's unfair to impose this on everyone, and such a move runs the risk of burning out many kids before they leave high school. Peter Morace, DEER PARK...
Where Green is tried could be a matter of his life and death. While the Army punishes murderers severely, it has rarely executed soldiers in the post-World War II era; the last time it did was in 1961. Green's lawyers have thus maintained that it is fundamentally unfair that their client faces a much harsher potential penalty than his already convicted co-conspirators, for whom the Army did not seek death and who will be eligible for parole in 10 years. The day before the trial began, federal prosecutors asked the judge to have this line of argument...
...further expand her Austin, Texas - based family by adopting another daughter, she thought China was the obvious choice. She soon discovered however, that as a single woman, she is no longer eligible. "Three years ago I was an acceptable parent, and now I'm not," she says. "It seems unfair." While Freer has since been approved to adopt a daughter from Ethiopia, she is one of a growing number of prospective parents who are unable to adopt from China under new laws Beijing put in place...
...Chase, Capital One and American Express from raising rates on customers even when cardholders miss payments or their credit rating tanks. "Americans do not deserve to be pushed down the economic ladder by credit card companies," Dodd said as he rolled out the bill, "It's wrong, it's unfair, and it must...
...most likely outcome is a bill somewhere between Maloney's and Dodd's that prevents credit card companies from boosting rates on existing balances but allows them to jack them up for future purchases, eliminates a variety of unfair billing and payment gimmicks the card companies use to jack up fees, and gives the consumer more ways out if the card companies do try to squeeze them...