Tag: education
group name: politicsjustice
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November 29, 2007 09:52 AM EST --
"The 'war on terror' is not everybody's language, nor for that matter is 'globalization', says 1998 Nobel Prize economics laureate Amartya Sen. Nor is anyone right to . . . more
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May 31, 2006 03:27 PM EDT --
Almost 47,000 California high school students will not receive diplomas this year because they failed an exit test designed in 2004 designed to measure standards that would insure graduates' diplomas . . . more
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July 26, 2007 10:28 PM EDT --
The war in Iraq is a clash of cultures, as Inside the Surge, a sober, low-key video film by Guardian photographer Sean Smith makes clear. http://www.guardian.co.uk/video/page/0,,2135293,00.html . . . more
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April 27, 2007 10:21 AM EDT --
The character of the American biosphere is reflected in the tragedy at Virginia Tech. This university is a clone of White WASP technocracy and has a record of serving military-industrial -intelligence . . . more
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December 08, 2007 10:46 AM EST --
http://books.guardian.co.uk/print/0,,331488257-114241,00.html
A hunger for books
Last night Doris Lessing, aged 88, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. In her acceptance speech she recalls . . . more
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October 15, 2006 06:21 PM EDT --
Each day that passes the fundamental contradictions of our society and its political institutions becomes more profound and fundamentally disturbing.
I recall a wise saying of one of our greatest . . . more
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May 30, 2007 08:07 PM EDT --
"This universe is a dream that all six billion of us are collaboratively dreaming up into materialization together. When we realize this, we can put our lucidity together in a way where we can . . . more
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May 03, 2007 06:22 PM EDT --
Illiteracy Also Poses An Economic Problem In An Increasingly Competitive Global Economy
According to a new report, one in five Americans is functionally illiterate. The National Coalition . . . more
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July 22, 2007 05:06 AM EDT --
Hot and Salty
STEPHAN A. SCHWARTZ, Editor - The Schwartzreport.net
Most of us know very little about water. It comes in two types, salt and fresh. It has two hydrogen and one oxygen atoms, . . . more
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April 19, 2007 09:21 AM EDT --
People have two reactions after a tragedy such as the horrific scene at Virginia Tech on Monday morning. First, everyone tries to figure out what the closest relationship is that they have to . . . more
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January 31, 2007 01:44 PM EST --
Although I detest war, I can see that it is sometimes necessary in order to free people from oppressive governments. Think WWII. Hitler's legacy lives on today in countries here and there. . . . more
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October 12, 2006 09:02 PM EDT --
To Achieve Your Dreams
Avoid negative sources, people, places, things and habits.
Believe in yourself.
Consider things from every angle.
Don't give up and don't give in.
Enjoy life today, . . . more
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July 28, 2007 03:34 AM EDT --
Deep red lips, the shadow marking the vessel of the drink
Long black eyelashes, covering the darkness of the blink
Clear bright eyes, I lost the ability to think
I was in love
Deep green paper, . . . more
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July 19, 2007 01:40 AM EDT --
Not another post-Iraq story about the fading power and reputation of the United States. Americans are literally no longer heads and shoulders above the rest of the world.
"America used . . . more
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April 13, 2008 10:51 AM EDT --
Reading Is Fundamental was founded in the 1960s to provide books and literacy programs to needy families. According to its website it is the "oldest and largest non-profit literacy organization . . . more
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October 03, 2006 09:15 PM EDT --
DPA's Office of Legal Affairs recently won big for medical marijuana! A court decided in September that low-income medical marijuana patients in California who receive state public assistance . . . more
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October 27, 2006 05:05 PM EDT --
The media newspeak about "changing course", "phased withdrawal", "empowering" the Iraqi government, "putting security ahead of democracy" and "partitioning . . . more
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April 14, 2007 07:33 AM EDT --
In her recent novel, The Cleft *, Doris Lessing portrays a group of near-amphibious women who have no need of men, known as "Squirts," as they are impregnated by the wind, wave or . . . more
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October 29, 2006 07:48 AM EST --
The Posse Comitatus Act is a United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385) passed in 1878. It generally prohibits Federal military personnel and units of the United States National Guard under Federal . . . more
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February 02, 2007 04:01 AM EST --
[This is the prepared text of the testimony offered by former National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on February 1, 2007
Brzezinski . . . more
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