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...political change. It’s time to fundamentally change this country’s government, to have have it working for its people again! Viva la Revolution!! Viva la Revolution indeed. The change Obama represents to this commentator likely does not resemble the change he represents to his upper-middle class, highly-educated supporters (his most reliable voters in the primaries) who are, I imagine, not looking for revolution. But because of our collective charitableness towards unknown quantities—be they movie stars who died too young or politicians with scant records (and, in the case of John...
...calm to East Timor, believed that hiding inside the three-bedroom home was one of the country's most wanted men, Lieutenant Gustao Salsinha - sought in connection with the Feb. 11 attacks on President Jose Ramos-Horta and Prime Minister Xanana Gusmao. They slipped up the ladder, through the upper story, down the stairs and into one of the bedrooms, where they tapped the leg of a figure lying on a bed. Their prize gave a piercing girlish scream. It was not the ruthless guerrilla fighter they were hoping for, but the teenage daughter of an East Timorese legislator, lawyer...
...little rewards feel like a fortune compared to the meager returns of a show like “24.” ABC has even given “Lost” the unique honor of working with a set conclusion in 2010. This gives the writers a rare upper hand in planning the rest of their machinations. Despite this development, I wonder if the story’s web has already spun out of control; with four new characters added just this week and three more promised for the episode yesterday, I’m not sure what kind...
...health of the child first. "Sports used to be this wonderful even playing field," says Regan McMahon, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle who has covered the professionalization of youth sports. "Now it's the rich kids who make the team. It's the upper-middle-class parents who can afford all of these supplemental programs...
...some of the prerequisites. One is an unshakable belief in children's capacity to learn. "Anyone without this has no business in the classroom," says Margaret Gayle, an expert on gifted education at Duke University, who has trained thousands of teachers in North Carolina. Another requirement, especially in the upper grades, is a deep knowledge of one's subject. According to research on teacher efficacy by statistician William Sanders, the higher the grade, the more closely student achievement correlates to a teacher's expertise in her field. Nationally, that's a problem. Nearly 30% of middle- and high school classes...