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| Fri, 5 May 2006 08:00:00 EST Most students can work it; not all are employable |
| When I was in grade school, my parents gave me money for good grades. They dropped a Hamilton for every A I got on my six-week report card. |
| Thu, 4 May 2006 16:00:00 EST Why a gas tax is good for you |
| Twenty months ago, when plenty of folks were reeling at $48-per-barrel oil, energy economist Philip Verleger predicted that the price was headed for $60. A prolific author, Verleger served in the Treasury Department under President Carter. Verleger, who now runs a consulting business out of Aspen, Colo., and is a visiting fellow with the Institute for International Economics, explains why more pain could be ahead at the pump. |
| Thu, 4 May 2006 16:00:00 EST The English local elections |
| Here, from the Times of London's ever perceptive Gerard Baker, is pretty much all you need to know about today's English local elections and the effect they might have on the tenure of Prime Minister Tony Blair. Labor had a terrible day a week ago Wednesday when scandals of different sorts, which Baker adroitly references, broke on three Labor ministers: Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, Home Secretary Charles Clarke, and Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt. As Baker notes, parties in power in Westminster tend to do poorly in local elections, just as parties holding the White House tend to do poorly in state and local elections in this country: Voters instinctively reach for some kind of balance. And so local elections are not just a proxy for approval or disapproval of the party in power. |
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| Fri, 05 May 2006 21:21:26 EDT Boot camp guards killed teen, autopsy finds |
| A teenager who died at a Florida boot camp was suffocated by guards who were restraining him, a medical examiner has determined. Videotape of the incident showed Martin Lee Anderson being forced to the ground by various takedown methods, including knee strikes to his thigh and pressure points to his ear. The second autopsy was carried out after Anderson's family, medical experts and civil rights leaders disagreed with the conclusion of the first -- complications from sickle cell trait. |
| Fri, 05 May 2006 23:10:00 EDT Officials: General to head CIA |
| CIA Director Porter Goss is resigning, President Bush announced on Friday. No reason was given for Goss' resignation, but sources told CNN there were lengthy disputes between Goss and John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, over the future of the CIA. They say Negroponte's decision to transfer certain functions from the CIA to his office were fiercely resisted by Goss. |
| Fri, 05 May 2006 22:45:56 EDT Libby's lawyers want Rove as witness |
| Defense attorneys for Lewis "Scooter" Libby plan to call Karl Rove as a witness and challenge the credibility of a former diplomat at the center of the CIA leak investigation, the lawyers said Friday. |
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