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Obama win a civil-rights revolution
The Swampby James Oliphant Remember the struggles. Little Rock. James Meredith at the University of Mississippi. Brown vs. Board of Education. Birmingham and Bull Connor. The Boston busing riots. Throw in, if you like, Rosa Parks. Or Jackie Robinson. Social...Tags: Mississippi, Academic Progress, Jackie Robinson, Crime, Law and Justice, John McCain
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Students at Palm, Broward schools write cards to U.S. troops
Palm Beach Politics - Sun-Sentinel BlogsStudents at Palm Beach County schools sent holiday cards to U.S. troops in Afghanistan this week, with the help of U.S. Rep. Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton. Klein got kids from these schools in Palm Beach County to create cards and......Tags: Lake Worth, Jupiter, Wars and Interventions, Defense, Coral Springs
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Bush: Read more than you watch TV
The Swampby Mark Silva We've seen President Bush in classrooms before - we saw him there on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, at Emma Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., listening to second-graders reading. And we saw him there again......Tags: Society, David Cook, Pennsylvania, Defense, Florida
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Altemus and Crewe want to see you
Who's on Team Gloucester?Supervisors Teresa Altemus and Bobby Crewe have announced they'll be hosting separate town hall meetings on Feb. 25.Altemus, the York District representative, will hold a meeting at 7 p.m. at Achilles Elementary School. She will talk about the upcoming...Tags: Gloucester Point, Gloucester (Gloucester, Virginia), Education, Schools
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Pension probe: The good, the bad and the connected
Spin CycleThree brief points on the expanding pension probe: 1. Steve Rattner, head of the Quadrangle private investment firm, is first and foremost identified in news reports as Obama's chief advisor on the auto industry, which he is. But the......Tags: AFSCME, Prosecution, Pension and Welfare, Raymond W. Kelly, Crime, Law and Justice
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Joe Biden disses Bo Obama
The SwampVice President Joe Biden speaks to Bellevue Elementary School students Sunday in Syracuse, N.Y. (Photo by Michelle Gabel/The Post-Standard) By Rebecca Cole At the White House Correspondents' dinner over the weekend, President Barack Obama promised to...Tags: Joe Biden, Bo (dog), Barack Obama, White House, National Government
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Obama at NAACP: 'Next 100 years'
The Swampby Mark Silva One hundred years ago, black boys and girls attended school separately from white boys and girls, by law, in many parts of the United States, home of the free. One hundred years ago, black men and women......Tags: Reformed, Crime, Law and Justice, National or Ethnic Minorities, Slavery, Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Sotomayor hearing live analysis: Day 3
The SwampSonia Sotomayor continues her testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee (Win McNamee/Getty Images) by James Oliphant We're back at Hart 216 for the third day of the Sotomayor Supreme Court hearings. Stay here for real time analysis during....Tags: Newspapers, Judges, Disasters and Accidents, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers
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Kids Must Salute Cars in China
KickingTiresIn a New York Times story on myriad rules imposed at the Chinese government???s local levels comes one that really caught our attention: A Chinese province requires all students at its elementary school in Huangping to stop and salute when......Tags: Vehicles, Services and Shopping, The New York Times, Education, Schools
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Obama's 'Race to the Top:' $1.35 B more
The Swampby Mark Silva Today, while the balance of power in the U.S. Senate is on the block in Massachusetts, President Barack Obama will travel to a suburban Virginia elementary school to tout additional spending for his signature program of education......Tags: Academic Progress, U.S. Senate, Florida, Politics, White House
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Nassau GOP picks Donno for 7th S.D. - UPDATED
Spin CycleRepublican Plandome Manor Mayor Barbara Donno was endorsed last night by the Nassau GOP for state Senate, to face rookie incumbent Democrat Craig Johnson in November. In a statement from the party, she is quoted as saying: "My passion is......Tags: Republican Party, New York, Craig Johnson, Politics, Nassau County
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Father, son share attitude award decades apart
South Bend TribuneA local father and son received the same award at Penn High School nearly three decades apart. Chuck Sowders said it wouldn’t have been enough for his son Connor to simply observe his basketball career, but his son was willing to put in the hard...Tags: Basketball, Sports, Schools, High Schools
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