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- Letters to the editor
Regarding “Schools bond to be on ballot this fall” (Our Region, July 24):
So let me get this straight: The San Diego Unified School District is plagued with overcrowded campuses with aging portable classrooms and, alternatively, near-empty campuses even at sites that received millions of dollars from Proposition MM.
- The FBI turns 100
During the wee hours of Sunday, May 4, of this year, a vast array of FBI personnel, including myself, received a hurried and somewhat disjointed telephone call advising that an explosive device of some sort had just detonated near the main entrance of the U.S. Courthouse in downtown San Diego.
- Our duty to our gay defenders
Did you know that your safety and security depend on gay men and lesbians?
An estimated 65,000 gay men and lesbians serve in the U.S. armed forces, though by law they cannot be open about their sexuality. As we fight two wars, our military is stretched thin.
- EUGENE ROBINSON THE WASHINGTON POST
An overabundance of good luck for Obama
It was as if the fates had conspired to give Barack Obama the kind of foreign affairs photo-op that a campaign manager would only see in his wildest dreams. Damp, gray Berlin was alive with bright sunshine. A crowd police estimated at more than 200,000 filled the heart of the city.
- DANIEL WEINTRAUB THE SACRAMENTO BEE
Small businesses spur new economy
Claudia Viek thinks Servio Gomez is at the heart of the new economy. A native of El Salvador who once sold oranges at the end of a Los Angeles freeway offramp, Gomez worked in a San Francisco frame shop and then, with dreams of being his own boss, opened a store of his own.
- MICHAEL GERSON THE WASHINGTON POST
Wilberforce's trials of compassion
Some biographies set out to show that saints are merely men. The best biographies set out to show that saints are supremely men. Surrounding last year's 200th anniversary of the abolition of the British slave trade, there was a spate of books, and a major film, focusing on the life of William Wilberforce, the figure most responsible for that massive moral achievement.
- The U.S.-Canada trade relationship
Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., was the target of a foreign intervention last month. It was the friendliest of interventions, but it was dead serious in its intent: ensuring that the economies of the United States and Canada continue to flourish and that our citizens achieve the prosperity they deserve.
- Basing auto insurance on mileage
Faced with record-high gas prices and the November elections, not a day goes by without a politician's pitch to provide consumers with some relief – be it to permit offshore drilling, crack down on speculators, curb inventories in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve or grant a gas tax holiday.
- Gender progress among warlords
MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan
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The Afghan government may not be having much luck against the Taliban these days, but it did succeed in getting at least one band of insurgents to lay down its weapons.
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