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Your Child Wants to Join Army: What Do You Say?
It can be a heart-sinking moment. Your child announces a desire to join the military at a time when the U.S. is waging two wars. You honor the sacrifice of America's soldiers. But, as a parent, you’re selfish: Could you...
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Mike McPhate
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March 11, 2009; 11:22 AM ET |
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In This Game of Slots, D.C. Drivers Are the Losers
Last week — as I do almost every week of my life — I played the D.C. slots. This time on 20th Street NW. I found a parking space, pulled into it and climbed out of my car with my...
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Gina Acosta
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March 10, 2009; 5:08 PM ET |
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Second-Class Citizens in Virginia
Voter turnout in this past election set records — for youth voters, minority voters and voters who hadn’t cast a ballot since the advent of the Internet. But thousands of Virginia college students were excluded because of vague election laws...
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Gina Acosta
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March 10, 2009; 5:05 PM ET |
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Va. Politics
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Wrong Way on D.C. Voting Rights
Congress might be right in trying to correct the political wrong being done to the residents of the District of Columbia [Metro, Feb. 28]. Perhaps the lack of suffrage is an “intolerable injustice of American citizens being denied representation in...
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Gina Acosta
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March 10, 2009; 4:58 PM ET |
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Virginia's ________ Tests (Answer: Flawed)
Arne Duncan, President Obama’s education secretary, says he wants nationwide input on ways to improve the No Child Left Behind Act. If so, he should heed a lesson from Sarah Palin and the state of Virginia. Each winter, school districts...
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Gina Acosta
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March 10, 2009; 4:52 PM ET |
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Build the Purple Line, Then Bury It
In 1955, Manhattan’s last aboveground rail line, the Third Avenue El, was closed. Since that time, urban planners have placed rapid transit-trains either underground, or down the middle of well-traveled roads. Chicago has its “L,” but one of its newest...
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Gina Acosta
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March 10, 2009; 1:59 PM ET |
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Metro
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