Word: yearn
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...education. Why does our public system force the poor of our society to send their children to racially segregated and academically defunct schools? Given the opportunity, parents will make wise choices about where to educate their children. Nearly three-quarters of inner-city blacks support school choice and yearn to send their children to private or religious academies instead of dilapidated government schools. Policies that allow parents to choose a religious curriculum for their child will ensure real freedom of religion where beliefs are not marginalized or degraded, but encouraged. In seeking to both improve education and provide moral foundations...
...that generation—its moral relativism, its cult of cynicism, its delusion that all of humanity’s ills result from either Western capitalism or U.S. foreign policy—that, in their death throes, kick and scream against the better angels of our nature who yearn to believe in an America that is both strong and good...
...investigation, 98 of whom are being held on immigration charges. Others are being held for identification fraud and even traffic violations. In light of these numbers, it seems that the Justice Department is detaining these individuals for minor crimes while they search for new evidence. While we all yearn to see those responsible for the attacks brought to justice, evidence should be collected first and arrests made later. The Bill of Rights says we are innocent until proven guilty, not arrested and then proven guilty...
...Despite the presence of United Nations peacekeepers in East Timor, menace and misery lurk just across the border. East Timorese refugees?mainly former militiamen and Indonesian soldiers and their families?yearn to return from their squalid camps in West Timor. But Indonesian authorities are already unable to cope with the crisis, and the pressure on East Timor will grow when the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees quits the island in December. Although the militias have disbanded, a small core of hard-liners, scattered from West Timor to Jakarta, still harbor dreams of vengeance. "There are problems for years ahead," says...
...adds, "given the size of the investment, the new policy does encourage broadcasters to be cautious. No one wants to ruin their chances." If the plan goes through, China's couch potatoes are in for a whole lot more programming?though it might be so mild they'll yearn for the good old days of pirated signals...