Sucessful Day Of Prayer
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We deeply appreciate everyone’s participation in the second annual National Day of Prayer in Lenox as we joined tens of thousands of other observances of the 57th National Day of Prayer (NDP).
Our local observance was particularly special with program participants from three counties and attendees from at least four counties.
Having so many of our neighbors [...]
Poor Zimbabwe villagers hope vote brings change
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UMGUZA, Zimbabwe (Reuters) - Like many other Zimbabweans, villager Betty Sithuthu’s main hope is that Saturday’s elections will help put more food on her table.
“We just hope that this voting of ours will change the way that we are living here,” said 35-year-old Sithuthu after casting her vote at Gadade village in Umguza in the [...]
Tony Blair didnt do God in Downing Street. Now hes making up for lost time
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You cant fault Tony Blairs ambition.
Within hours of his leaving office last June, the UN announced that the former
Prime Minister would take up a role as a Middle East peace envoy. As if
attempting to solve that ancient conflict was not enough, Mr Blair will set
up his Faith Foundation this year %26mdash; no less than an [...]
Stein Stumps For State Education Law Change
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Instead of taking on President Bush and the automotive, health care and gun industries, Stein is taking on the vast world of academia in a new documentary. It challenges Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution with intelligent design, the belief that the world and man were created by an intelligent designer God.
“We’ve been troubled by the [...]
Student recounts seeing peer shot to death in school parking lot
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Clarke had just emerged from Simeon, where, like Jackson, he was taking classes to recoup high school credits, authorities said Sunday.
In a shooting Friday, police still were seeking answers in the death of Miguel Pedro, 15, an 8th grader at Nobel Elementary School. Pedro was fatally shot while walking to a store a block away [...]
Staff are being patronised and put through hoops
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Ty Goddard is startlingly outspoken for a man who regularly enters the lairs of protocol-driven Whitehall mandarins. Maybe years of pushing through radical change in a series of public and voluntary sector jobs has made him too impatient to bother tiptoeing around fragile civil-service egos. Maybe he’s always called a badly made spade a botched [...]
BVI engages consultant to review education system
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ROADTOWN, BVI: The government of the BVI has engaged a consultant to conduct a review of the territory%26rsquo;s education system In delivering the 2008 budget estimate, Premier and Minister for Finance Ralph O%26rsquo;Neal said a high percentage of the children in the BVI are not reading as well as they should by the end of [...]
An Enlightening Trip to the Countryside
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I have an advantage working as the vice president for government relations at a large state university. Actually, four advantages. I have an ego-enhancing high profile in my local community and among a certain group of people at the state level. I have access to a number of pots of money that can be used [...]
Parents students protest Chicago school closings
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The plan will lead to the shuttering of Roque de Duprey Elementary School, Gladstone Elementary School and the eventual phase-outs of the De La Cruz and Andersen schools.
“I’m pretty much disgusted with the way they went … they were going to go through with it no matter what,” said Mildred Rodriguez, who [...]
When is a behemoth a white elephant
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Though nobody could be more anxious to discover the fate of the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) than the people who work there, the rest of the further education sector also watches with interest.It was the incoming Labour government 10 years ago that constructed the behemoth, and the same party that has begun, at least, [...]
