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Results mixed on Culver’s education reform
By Charlotte Eby | 1 comment(s)
When Gov. Chet Culver stepped out of the classroom and into the State Capitol, he brought an experience few governors can match.
Let state law help prevent dropouts
By Times staff | No comments posted
Public education is a community initiative. That was Gov. Chet Culver’s message Wednesday at Destination Graduation, Iowa’s Dropout Prevention Leadership Summit in Des Moines. The summit gathered educators to develop statewide strategies for keeping young people in school. This commendable effort charges communities, not just school districts, with reducing the dropout rate.
Reflections on Yom HaShoah 2008
By Rabbi Michael Samuel | 6 comment(s)
Martin Gilbert in his book “The Holocaust” tells the story about a 16-year-old named Zvi Michalowski. On Sept. 27, 1941, Zvi was supposed to be executed with 3,000 other Lithuanian Jews. He had fallen into the pit a fraction of a second before the Nazis shot their guns.
Human face reflects lessons of history
By Times Staff | 1 comment(s)
The human face. It is what Rabbi Michael Samuel points to in today’s guest column as the most vivid reminder that we all share the same human traits. “Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer,” as William Shakespeare wrote in “The Merchant of Venice.”
Obama’s rhetorical fraud revealed
By Charles Krauthammer | 5 comment(s)
“I can no more disown him (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown my white grandmother.”
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Clinton can't win without Obama
By David Broder | No comments posted
On the day last week when Hillary Clinton suffered the first of two costly defections by Indiana superdelegates, I went to see an old friend working in her national campaign. I knew he was loyal to her, but I also calculated that if he were guaranteed anonymity, he would give me an honest answer to the vexing question: Does the Clinton camp still see any realistic way she can deny Barack Obama the Democratic nomination without blowing up the party?
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