The segregated schools of today are arguably no more equal than the segregated schools of the past.
From Ed Markey
Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.
The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience.
It is common knowledge that smoking is considered one of the nation's leading causes of preventable death, but it's less widely known that cigarettes are also the leading cause of fatal fires.
Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
The Christians had a better chance against the lions than the American consumer has against the OPEC cartel.
In Uzbekistan, hundreds of protesters were recently killed under the corrupt regime of President Karimov in what human rights groups are calling a massacre.
Just this week, Syria broke off all relations with the United States military and the CIA.
Hope is the most important four-letter word in the language.
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