Standardise schooling The editorial in the latest issue of Organiser titled Board Exam: A Rational Approach says: The UPA-I was notorious for its comatose, narrow-minded approach to education. UPA-II on the reverse has an HRD Minister brimming with new ideas. Most of them are innovative, agreeable and long overdue,...
Clues of Britain's First Humans
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
The last time the British Museum claimed that the earliest known human was British, some 98 years ago, its evidence was the Piltdown skull, which the British archaeological establishment did not concede was a forgery...
Antony Gormley: The site is a real challenge to artists
The Independent
The Independent
To use an archaic device of elevation (both of value and physical height) for the display of contemporary sculpture in the context of a collectively occupied and politically charged square at the centre of London is a...
Lyn Gardner on the power of the audience
The Guardian
The Guardian
'I liked Legally Blonde – but I loved the crowd'...
LA court begins search for jury in Smith case
Fresno Bee
Fresno Bee
The Associated Press Share thefresnobee_994:/2010/07/22/2014992/la-court-begins-search-for-jury.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name...
A leftie rant, living in a right world or How I learned to love the ...
Newsvine
Newsvine
I am a leftie and I have always known that I am evil, I am the root of it and the branch. We lefties have been attacked by the right since early tool making times. It is prehistoric, barbaric, archaic and has not yet...
Books in Brief: Beacon of liberty; case for blight on rights
Denver Post
Denver Post
(AP | JACQUELINE LARMA) NONFICTION The Liberty Bell, by Gary B. Nash, $24 It is an unlikely central character for a book — a silent, 258-year-old bell. Yet in "The Liberty Bell," a biography of our nation's "nearly...
Gay soldier discharged from New York paramilitary
Zeenews
Zeenews
New York: A soldier who made an open announcement that he was gay has been discharged from a paramilitary force in New York. The New York Army National Guard honourably discharged Lt Dan Choi under the "don't' ask, don't...
The Tea Party Isn't Racist
The Daily Beast
The Daily Beast
by Tunku Varadarajan Info Tunku Varadarajan is a national affairs correspondent and writer at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and a professor at NYU’s...
The Wild West in the Backyard
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Schulenburg, Tex. IT'S a rite of passage for many Texans to retire to a home on the range. But unlike other wannabe cowboys, Jimmy Helms, a retired dentist whose patients included former President George H. W. Bush,...
How to fix Census' broken race question
USA Today
USA Today
Updated | Comment | Recommend | | | By Web Bryant, USA TODAY USA TODAY OPINION Columns In addition to its own editorials, USA TODAY publishes a variety of opinions from outside writers....

