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...that Jeffords has upset the fragile ecology of the tundra, the Bush administration needs to lead itself to a period of introspection. There's a fatal pattern at work, and the election of 2002 is approaching at the speed of light. Unless the Bush people find a way to reverse an ancient pattern of complacent Republican navigation - the habit of running aground on the rocks of their own stupidity - then 2002 is going to be a disaster for them...
...proposals in their entirity. These require the Palestinian Authority to stop Palestinian militants from firing on Israelis, and to arrest known terrorists. But in the current climate, Arafat won't risk the heavy political price he'd have to pay on the Palestinian street for going after the radicals unless there was a tangible political incentive for doing so. And Sharon's position on the settlement question is likely to make more impact on Arafat than his cease-fire call, and the Palestinian leader is unlikely to be moved to do anything about fulfilling his side of the Mitchell proposals...
Senator George Mitchell may have hoped to help engineer an Israeli-Palestinian cease-fire; instead, his report into Mideast violence has started a new spin war. And Israel has had the better of the opening volleys. By ordering his troops to avoid firing unless their lives were threatened, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon achieved three important effects: He complied with Washington's request that Israel make the first gesture towards implementing the Mitchell Report by declaring a unilateral cease-fire; he made the Palestinians look like the spoilers for deriding that gesture; and he has drawn the focus of discussion away...
School officials credit their success in part to their 97% average attendance rate, which in turn is boosted by classes that emphasize art, poetry and yoga along with arithmetic and grammar. "Unless you're fully engaging the mind and body of the children, they're not going to be as productive," says Kevin Sved, 34, the school's co-founder. Accelerated says it outperformed the community's other public schools by 270% on last year's standardized tests. "It's like a $20,000 private school without the tuition," says Mario Ortega, 37, a mortgage banker who transferred...
...parents on board then you've got a better shot." To lure them back, schools are doing everything from sending teachers on house calls to giving parents a larger role in school reform. The moves are backed by new federal legislation that says a school won't get money unless it proves that its parents are getting involved...