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...depending on each government's past spending habits. That prospect has predictably raised the hackles of mayors and county managers. But state legislators - including a large contingent of Democrats - appear unsympathetic. "This is not so much a cut," says Republican state Senate Majority Leader Daniel Webster, "as it is bringing local governments back to reality." But critics remind the legislators of another reality: because locally levied property taxes pay for the lion's share of education in Florida - and since Florida's dismal schools can't afford new cutbacks - the state will have to find ways to compensate...
...crowds are not as large as the throngs turning out for Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, but they are huge by traditional Iowa standards. "Why is everybody here?" Linda Hearn asked her husband Dave, the former Webster County Democratic chairman, as she scanned more than 350 of her neighbors who had turned out to hear Edwards in Fort Dodge. "Because this is it," Dave replied. "We've got to get it right this time." That sense of seriousness is pervasive, and Edwards' response to it--his specificity on the issues--is a gamble that may well pay off. "I like...
...Howard's radical and extreme industrial relations experiment." Rudd was cutting through to voters and they to him, in such eerie sync they might have been spliced in a feedback loop. A month after the "Fork in the Road" listening tour, Rudd could reveal to 2UE's Tim Webster what Australians wanted of him: "To come up with a proposal which restores the balance, as it were, reclaims the center ground, keeping fairness alive but still building a strong economy." Doing a Kevin is contradictory. It involves looking like John. The man Rudd is trying to retire...
...general, parkour enthusiasts tend to respect authority and if told to stop climbing on a wall will nod and move along. Some try to explain to campus cops exactly what it is they're up to. Students at Maryland's McDaniel College told its campus safety director, Michael Webster, how much planning goes into what he remembers their calling "architectural acrobatics," and they stressed that they wouldn't "create an unnecessarily large amount of first-aid calls." Their entreaty worked. Today Webster says there is no official prohibition against parkour. Other schools seem caught between safety concerns and not wanting...
...demand certification from an independent laboratory. Top-grade flawless sells for $1,500 and up per carat and represents only 0.13% of TanzaniteOne's annual production, executives say. "Tanzanite is an amazing deep purply blue, and personally I find it more appealing than sapphire," says London jewelry designer Stephen Webster, who first worked with it in the early 1980s in Los Angeles. (But he warns that it is more fragile than some stones: 6.5 on the hardness scale, compared with 10 for diamond and 9 for sapphire.) "I'm looking at a piece right now, and it's flashing...