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...campaign trail Watt traverses his odd-shaped district -- it looks like a road-kill salamander -- in a shiny Dodge minivan, stopping to shake hands, wolf down fried fish and cheese puffs at dinnertime rallies, and spread his message: "We can't continue to widen the disparity between the haves at the top and the have-nots at the bottom." Watt well knows the have-not side of that great divide. He grew up near Charlotte in a tin-roofed home with no electricity or running water. But he went on to law school at Yale and a career...
...Mark K. Widen '92 and Catherine Brown '91 were told Monday that they were successful in their application to the program...
...chief gave his gloomiest ever assessment of the economy, warning that consumers and businesses are so top- heavy with debt that a recovery is nowhere in sight. And any attempt by Congress or the White House to sneak through a quick-fix tax cut, he added, could widen the budget deficit and further harm the economy...
According to Harvard Professor of Education Richard F. Elmore, there is no clear evidence that school quality will improve as a result of choice plans. What some programs will do is widen the gap between the haves and have-nots in education...
Poorly planned school-choice programs will widen the gap between the have and the have-nots...