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The Legislature's recent passage of educational reform laws will bring two important changes to California schools: the end of social promotion, in which students are passed to the next grade even if they have not mastered the material, and the required passage of a high school exit exam before graduation. These measures are supposed to raise test scores by prolonging students' stay in school, but they may serve mainly to reveal an enormous problem: Our schools are filled with students who are not students. Let me share with you two typical mornings from my job as an English teacher ...

For education and discussion only. Not for commercial use.    Upon returning from his third European trip in three months, Gov. John Engler on Thursday will help Texas Gov. George W. Bush launch his presidential campaign in Michigan.    Other than New Hampshire and Iowa, no other state will blaze more brightly than Michigan in the early nominating process.     Engler soon will sign legislation setting Feb. 22 as the date of next year’s GOP presidential primary. That could make Michigan the first really big show after the traditional two leadoff states.     Engler is determined that ...

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) -- President Clinton said Sunday that Russian President Boris Yeltsin impressed him in their hour-long meeting as ``clear, concise, and direct and strong.'' With differences on the Kosovo bombing campaign behind them, the United States and Russia may wind up with a better relationship than before, he said. In a television interview, Clinton also disclosed that he half expected Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to give up within a week of the start of NATO's bombing campaign that began March 24 against Serb forces. But he said he realized that if Milosevic ``decided to take the punishment ...

Continue your comments here. Click for previous thread.BTW, Unifox, I like your graphic in thread 1.

Hillary Clinton As 'Carpetbagger' Non-Issue - Poll 10.17 a.m. ET (1418 GMT) June 20, 1999 NEW YORK — More than two-thirds of New Yorkers said Hillary Rodham Clinton's out-of-state address would not deter them from voting for her if she runs for the Senate, according to a Daily News poll out Sunday. The poll came out as a report in this week's edition of U.S. News & World Report issued Saturday said the first lady planned to leave the White House more than a year early and move to New York to concentrate on establishing a presence in the state. ...

Untitled Document The End: NATO’s Strategic Confusion and Diplomatic Brilliance News/Current Events Editorial Opinion (Published) Source: Stratfor Published: 1840 GMT, 990619 Author: staff Posted on 06/19/1999 17:17:42 PDT by Phil V.     The End: NATO’s Strategic Confusion and Diplomatic Brilliance 1840 GMT, 990619 It's legal, 13 year olds can buy and sell assault rifles.   Legislative loophole allows 13 year old girls to make big profits selling assault rifles! Whoa, now who ever thought the day would come that we would see this happen? Probably no one, but this is one of those rare boondoggles you can expect ...

Wayne Higley gave a four-star performance when he appeared on "Good Morning America" to recount his daring days as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam. Thomas Beebe, head of military programs at Southern Illinois University, captivated students with stories about life in the SEALs. So did Raymond Aucker, who was superintendent of the Panther Valley School District in Lansford, Carbon County. All three said they loved their glorious times with the Navy's elite Sea, Air and Land fighting teams. Too bad that their service in the SEALs existed only in their fertile imaginations. Higley, Beebe and Aucker were frauds, and they ...

Arkansas Department of Corrections Plasma Center, Grady, Arkansas 71644, 7/17/82, RRW SUMMARY OF FINDINGS: The current inspection of this plasmapheresis center was conducted [text deleted]. The last inspection of this plasma center, operated in a State Correctional Institution, was conducted on 9/12/81 and disclosed the refractometer calibration record was incomplete, corrected record errors were not identified by the corrector, no record of the calibration of the bed scales and the unit weighing scale on Sundays of each donation period, and there was no record of the lab centrifuge having ever been calibrated. An NAF letter was issued on 9/21/82 ...

Whats wrong with this reasoning? 'We have a constitutional right to travel.. Yet we require registration & liscensing of cars & drivers.. These requirments even faciliate our rights.. So why not require the same for guns?' Loosely quoted from billies interview with wolfie on CNN ths morning....

COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Russian President Boris Yeltsin came to Sunday's meeting with President Clinton bearing one gift — a report on declassified Russian information relating to the assassination of President John Kennedy. Sandy Berger, Clinton's national security adviser, termed the report a "very interesting gift.'' But he refused to speculate on whether it contained any new information on the Kennedy assassination, saying it was in Russian and U.S. officials had not reviewed it. The documents will "be reviewed carefully and all interesting elements will be made public,'' Berger told reporters traveling with Clinton to the economic summit in Cologne. ...

The new Clinton foreign policy and military doctrine is about one thing only. It may attempt to put flowery words to it, and explain it in as politically correct a fashion as possible. But, in a word it is all about : TREASON !!!! Because this : Leads directly to this :

If one follows the philosophy of tolerance that the pro immorality liberals of the clinton era apply to the application of governmental power, then one must assume that the "devil' is a friend. Since the devil is the arch enemy of religion and morality, then it must be true that the devil is also good and can't be criticized. To criticize the devil, or the devils followers, GROUPS like the IMMORAL pervert homosexuals, is in fact HATE LANGAUAGE. When immoralists take over thought, what they try to do is LEGITIMITIZE immoral conduct or any conduct for that matter that is ...

Hey, are you like me? Need a good laugh from time to time??? If so, follow the link to Left-Wing Films. At first, I was frightened, then I found myself laughing uncontrollably. It's pitiful how these people take themselves so seriously....

Hughes and Loral -- Where's the Outcry? The Lack of Fallout from the Cox Report By ROBERT STOWE ENGLAND WASHINGTON -- Any lingering doubt there was harm done to national security by the transfer of satellite technology to China by two U.S. satellite companies was largely dispelled by the release of the unclassified version of the Cox Report in late May. The only question that remains is the degree of harm, which is variously estimated to be somewhere between modest and serious. While media and public attention to this serious matter has been virtually nil, some national security analysts ...

At the height of the scandal over her husband's   arrair with Monica Lewinsky, Hillary Clinton   told a friend: 'God is doing this and he knows   the reason.' Bob Woodward, the reporter    who was a central figure in the downfall of  President Nixon, tells the inside story of another           presidential family tragedy   GOD ONLY KNOWS      On the helicopter ride from the White House to  Andrews air force base to catch the plane to  Martha's Vineyard, the Clintons were not  speaking to each other. Doug Sosnik, a political  aide travelling with them, found ...

For education & discussion only. President Clinton's loyal understudy, Al Gore, formally applied for the promotion last week. The Vice President rightly bragged about prosperity and peace, and promised to build on that record while restoring unimpeachable integrity to the White House. Altogether, his kickoff back home in Tennessee was a solid step in his quest to be seen as a leader, not a mild-mannered mannequin or a wonkish adviser. He pumped up the friendly crowd, pronounced himself restless for "fundamental change," aimed a few zingers at the Republicans, and even spoke a little Spanish. Mr. Gore has been a ...

New Yorkers are unfazed by her out-of-state address. They don't see a problem with her role as First Lady, and they worry least of all what independent prosecutor Ken Starr might say about her. Statewide, after a slow start voters have decided they would would elect Hillary Rodham Clinton anyway — and by a hefty eight-point margin — if her presumed matchup for U.S. Senate against Mayor Rudy Giuliani were held today, a new Sunday News poll shows. The random survey of 805 registered state voters, compiled over two days last week, found Clinton besting Giuliani 47% to 39%, ...

U.S. Accused of 'Promis' Information Warfare Program An Aspect of Echelon [Interview with Fabrizio Calvi and Thierry Pfister, authors of book L'Oeil de Washington (The Eye of Washington), by Denis Jeambar and Yves Stavrides; place and date not given: "Espionage: How Washington Booby-Trapped All the World's Computers"] [Translated from the French] How far can a government go? Democracies have settled that issue of the desire for power in principle: The state of law, situated at the heart of their institutional mechanisms, forms their boundaries. But that framework is in fact more virtual than real, and laws or treaties are very ...

By Michael Rivero Copyright 1998, WorldNetDaily.com "Dear Sir," began Monica Lewinsky's somewhat peevish letter of July 3rd, 1997. In it, according to the recently released report by Kenneth Starr, the former intern chided the president for failing to secure for her a new White House job, and hinted that continued stalling would result in word of their affair leaking out. The next day, Monica confronted Bill Clinton in an Oval Office meeting she described as "very emotional"; a meeting which ended when the president warned her, "It's illegal to threaten the president of the United States." Three days later, another ...

Intro: The rumbles of yet another nationalist earthquake are shaking the former Yugoslavia. Rising from the fetid hovels of Pristina and the concrete-block family farms of rural Kosovo is the newest political and military force to beset the Balkans -- the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), known to Albanians as the Ushtria Clirimtare e Kosoves. Foreign Affairs May/Junel 1999 (volume 78, number 3) Kosovo's Next Masters By Chris Hedges INSIDE THE KOSOVO LIBERATION ARMY The rumbles of yet another nationalist earthquake are shaking the former Yugoslavia. Rising from the fetid hovels of Pristina and the concrete-block family farms of rural Kosovo ...