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A deliberate ploy
October 25
Dear Sir,
I have finally figured it out. The reason that education is where it is today is because the PLP Government had every intention of putting it there and has every intention of keeping it there.
Why? So that when ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2007
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WASHINGTON — The (BEG ITAL)real(END ITAL) story on Wall Street isn't that E. Stanley O'Neal, whose grandfather was born a slave, is being shoved out of the top job at Merrill Lynch, the gargantuan investment bank. More important is the fact that ... ...
DATE: Oct 30, 2007
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BOSTON — In retrospect, it was probably not the best way to reassure the faithful. When James Dobson, child psychologist turned political kingmaker, rose to speak at the Values Voter Summit dinner, he first complained about media reports that the rel...
DATE: Oct 27, 2007
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A correction
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When you printed the letter " 'Soon' never comes", you unfortunately mangled the following sentence, by inserting the word 'not' where I have placed an asterisk. "Hearing this, they can accept, because they lack the required kn...
DATE: Oct 27, 2007
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Doing the math
October 22, 2007
Dear Sir,
This is a letter to Education Minister Randy Horton which was copied to The Royal Gazette.
Dear Sir,
The following is an open letter which I have posted on my blog (www.21square.com) and copied to both The Ro...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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One of the major topics of discussion lately — or at least the one that the press isn't temporarily gagged from reporting on — is "will he or won't he", call an election that is.
I'm not sure why this is such a hard question and generates such hand-w...
DATE: Oct 26, 2007
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WASHINGTON — "I've seen fire and I've seen rain," James Taylor sang sweetly, back when I was in college and both of us had more hair.
If Taylor were writing that song today, given that much of the country is experiencing severe drought, he might want...
DATE: Oct 25, 2007
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LISBON (Reuters) — Prime Minister Gordon Brown faces an uproar in Britain over his refusal to allow a referendum on Europe's new treaty, but analysts expect him to stick to his guns in the hope that the row will subside by the next election.
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DATE: Oct 25, 2007
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We are going backwards
October 22, 2007
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In 1950 under the South African apartheid regime, legislation was passed for the registration of the population. The Population Registration Act meant that all South Africans were to be classified in ...
DATE: Oct 25, 2007
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On the face of it, the jump in graduation rates from Berkeley Institute and CedarBridge Academy is very good news.
For the record, the 22 percentage point increase from a 58 percent graduation rate in 2006 to 80 percent in 2007 (not 30 percent as rep...
DATE: Oct 24, 2007
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