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...hadn’t known them he would have mistaken them for youths in thrall of a complicated and passionate first love. Then they were kissing, quite tenderly, and Hector was reminded that while rife disorder ruled this world, there was also human tendency and need (however misguided, however wrong) forever tilting against it. Love was the prime defiance, of course, most every story told of that, though well short of love there was the simple law of association, just nearness and contact...
...guitar chords, are found here. On “Falling In,” frontman Jason Wade sings, “Every time I see your face / My heart takes off on a high speed chase,” and promises, “I would never do you wrong / Or let you down or lead you on.” “Halfway Gone” takes up a similarly melodramatic theme, Wade singing, “Talk, talk is cheap / Give me a word you can keep.” These themes, however, are too often repeated...
Georgia state authorities have ordered an investigation into 191 public elementary and middle schools--more than half of them in Atlanta--after a Feb. 10 audit found that an unusually high number of wrong answers on students' standardized tests had been erased and replaced with the correct ones. Of those schools, almost two dozen had suspicious erasure patterns on more than 50% of classroom tests, suggesting an orchestrated attempt to raise scores and improve school standing under the No Child Left Behind Act. Inquiries will be handled by individual school districts, raising fears that those investigating the problem...
...Wrong. It's the other way around: Chile is more developed because it's doing things right. The same goes for Brazil, Uruguay, Costa Rica and a handful of other Latin American and Caribbean nations that have decided in the 21st century to stop running their societies like medieval fiefdoms. They've conceded that niceties like rule of law, accountability, education, entrepreneurial opportunity and administrative efficiency actually have merit. And they've stopped making worn-out excuses, like the threats of communism or U.S. imperialism, for not modernizing their political and economic systems. (See TIME's complete coverage...
...Gates also criticized NATO for buying the wrong weapons for the wrong war - a criticism he has consistently directed at the U.S. military as well during his three-year tenure, chiding it for buying wonder weapons for hypothetical wars while soldiers fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq lack armor and spy drones. "Despite the need to spend more on vital equipment for ongoing missions, the alliance has been unwilling to fundamentally change how it sets priorities and allocates resources," Gates said. He praised Denmark for giving up its submarine fleet - who knew? - in order to double the size of its expeditionary...