Two new national groups, the Task Force for A Broader, Bolder Approach to Education and the Education Equality Project, have denounced the No Child Left Behind Law as a failure and called for a new course for education that will bring about equal opportunity and educational excellence for the neediest students. 
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Relations with Cuba are regularly a major issue in U.S. election campaigns – local and national – in the important state of Florida, especially South Florida. And usually the most anti-Cuban-government voice wins.
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A mother holds a baby boy on her lap. She says: “Hi, John McCain, this is Alex, he’s my first.
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Iraq: Refugees are silent scandal
Canada: Unions say out of Afghanistan
Bolivia: Justice is stymied
Sweden: Report calls for arms control
Cuba: EU drops sanctions
China: Negotiations with Taiwan
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Efforts to impeach and even prosecute President Bush are gaining wider support as anger mounts over his administration’s disregard for the Constitution and what many see as its continuing gross negligence and criminal behavior.
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The proposal by President Bush and Sen. John McCain to lift the federal ban on offshore oil drilling will do nothing to reduce gasoline prices but will risk permanent damage to the coastal waters and marine wildlife, according to environmentalists and energy experts.
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The candidates who demonstrate to voters that they value families will win in the November elections. That’s quite a reversal from the 1980s, when the conservative agenda began to be packaged as “family values.”
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Defensores de los derechos humanos alabaron el fallo del 12 de junio del Tribunal Supremo que declaró que los cientos de detenidos en la prisión estadounidense en Guantánamo, Cuba, tienen el derecho a juicios justos y otros derechos de habeas corpus. Cientos de los detenidos han estado encarcelados por seis años sin acusaciones formales por delincuencia ni juicio ante un jurado y sujeto a la tortura y otros abusos.
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El negociador palestino Ahmed Qureia le dijo a periodistas que “sin un milagro” no habrá un acuerdo de paz Israelí-Palestino.
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La semana pasada el Comité Especial sobre la Descolonización de la Organización de Naciones Unidas reiteró su apoyo al derecho del pueblo de Puerto Rico a la autodeterminación e independencia.
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