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Friday, May 16, 2008
The optimism and enthusiasm that President Bush displays as he marks the 60th anniversary of the foundation of Israel and simultaneously advances his peace initiative in the Middle East are a welcome relief from the gloom and doom of the pundits. It's also a good policy.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
You need an outstanding principal to turn a struggling school into a good school. But that apparently doesn't mean you always need two outstanding principals to turn two struggling schools into good schools. MiShawna Moore, an outstanding principal, has been doing double duty by putting two struggling elementary schools on the Charleston peninsula on the right track.
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Friday, May 16, 2008
John McCain, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton have attracted considerable attention as the final three 2008 presidential candidates, though political realities now appear to have trimmed it to a two-man race. But another trio of candidates for another office pack some star power of their own — and deliver an entertaining reminder that California's merging of politics and show biz didn't start with former Gov. Ronald Reagan or end with current Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
The U.N. Office for Humanitarian Affairs is warning that there is a risk of a second catastrophe in the wake of the deadly cyclone that has already taken the lives of hundreds of thousands on people in Burma. The looming second catastrophe will not be a natural disaster because it will have been caused by the criminal callousness of the generals who rule the country they call Myanmar.
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Thursday, May 15, 2008
City of Charleston Fire Chief Rusty Thomas concluded 11 months after nine of his firefighters lost their lives in an inferno still under investigation that the best way to hasten the healing within the department was to step aside. His instincts were right, not only for the department, but for himself and his family.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The preliminary results of a survey detailing the use of the Ravenel Bridge by pedestrians and cyclists should be a major encouragement to local and state officials to provide ease of access on other spans in the metropolitan area. It's no surprise that the Ravenel Bridge has been an attractive incentive for residents to exercise recreationally, but the survey by College of Charleston researchers also found that more than 10 percent of those polled use the bridge's walkway/bike lane to commute.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The deal under which the Mahdi Army militia will give way this week to the Iraqi Army in Baghdad's Sadr City appears to be a major gain for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. Together with the growing success of his campaign to regain government control of the Basra oil region on Iran's border, the Sadr City cease-fire consolidates the power of Iraq's elected government at the expense of followers of rebellious cleric and Mahdi Army leader Muqtada al-Sadr.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Students who work hard to attain major academic improvements gain the enhanced futures that a good education brings. Teachers who work hard to facilitate such improvements gain the satisfaction of an important job well done. But should outstanding teachers receive a more tangible benefit? Charleston County School District Superintendent Nancy McGinley, a proponent of incentive pay for top teachers, is prudently exploring that concept's possibilities here.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The influential international news magazine The Economist described Pakistan as "the most dangerous place in the world" before elections in February returned the country to democracy. The repudiation of the military regime headed by President Pervez Musharraf led to an agreement between the two major political parties to form a coalition government that held out the promise of political stability.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
America's excellence in military technology, a critical national strength since the middle of World War II, doesn't always deliver the sweeping benefits it once did to our armed forces as they struggle in an unorthodox 21st century conflict against terrorism. But the U.S. troops whose lives and limbs have been saved by "Mine Resistant Ambush Protected" vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan know that cutting-edge technology remains a vital weapon in their arsenal.
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Last week the state House of Representatives took a whack at two of the most indefensible examples of previous budgetary pork that totaled more than $32 million. The House should insist on its reallocation of nearly $24.5 million of those funds when the budget conferees assemble this week.
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Monday, May 12, 2008
Vladimir Putin has more than made good on his promise when he became president eight years ago to impose "a dictatorship of law" on Russia's unruly young democracy. When he made the remark it was reasonable to assume that he really meant to say that he would use "the rule of law" to restore order...
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Monday, May 12, 2008
The decline of the dollar's worth is alarming enough. Must we also pay more for a penny than it costs to make one? As The Associated Press reported this week, steep boosts in the prices of copper, zinc and nickel have moved some federal lawmakers to propose a return of steel as the primary ...
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Monday, May 12, 2008
The S.C. Senate's approval of a 50-cent cigarette tax increase last week envisions more funding to tobacco cessation programs and more support for low-income health care. The tax also is expected to diminish cigarette consumption among thousands of young people by raising the cost of smoking. Tha...
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Sunday, May 11, 2008
It is rare for the five major nuclear-armed powers to agree to act in unison to strengthen safeguards against nuclear proliferation. The reason they did so was to issue a warning: "The proliferation of nuclear weapons constitutes a threat to international peace and security." That warning ...
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