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Students arriving at the Thoren Business School have to make do with a Dell. But Pauli Gymnasium, the biggest municipal-run school, this year decided to give MacBooks to all its students to stave off private competition.
Peje Emilsson, the founder of Kunskapsskolan, a private school company, attacked the research, deriding it as the worst report the thinktank had produced in 20 years.
And Swedes, used to coming near the top of just about every human development index, were appalled.
Beyond all of the tactical discussion, the startegic point is that Perry may be running away with this race, barring an implosion on his part. The latest polls show him with solid leads - the latest one by CNN has Perry leading in every single category. Polls this early, especially national polls, are pretty useless. But still, they play into a growing realisation that Perry is the one to beat - assuming he can be beaten.
Rick Perry, the governor of Texas, has sparked a high-stakes political fight over Social Security by calling the popular retirement program a "failure" and a "Ponzi scheme" on the campaign trail and in his recent book.
Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, warned during a debate last week that the Republican Party should nominate someone "who isn't committed to abolishing Social Security, but who is committed to saving Social Security."
On the trail, she has not engaged in the sort of rhetorical hand-to-hand combat that Perry and Romney have, preferring to stick to scripted talking points attacking President Obama. But she has also suffered from diminishing media attention. A press conference last week on Capitol Hill following the president's jobs speech was sparsely populated.
As far as I can see Richard, Ron Paul seems to be winning the argument and in all probability will win the GOP nomination. Prestitutes like yourself have purposely ignored Ron Paul and consistently denounce him, either by callous omission, or by regarding him as a crank with no chance.
We are not the only people live-blogging this debate, of course.
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Pink: Steady on Sebastian, I mean Mr Brown.
Brown: Oh hahaha Adrian. You're so cruel.
Now he's introducing the candidates individually up on stage like it was a tag-team wrestling match. "The former president and CEO of Godfather's Pizza, Herman Cain!"
Seriously, in the last debate, Perry and Romney had already scratched each other's eyes by now. Come on CNN.
Bachmann is trying to say how great social security is and why it needs to be gutted. "I am a person who had feet in the private sector and a foot in government," says Bachmann. That must have been painful.
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Huntsman continues to pander for the irony vote with an oblique and deeply weird Nirvana reference.
Romney is breaking just slightly out of his robotic shell, but it is kind of a bad sign when "testy" is an improvement, personality-wise.
is asked again about his decision to mandate the HPV vaccine for girls as young as 11. He acknowledges the way he implemented the policy was a mistake, but defends the principle on the grounds of public health. Which is not an approach he takes to climate change, strangely.
Ron Paul
is accusing Rick Perry of being a left-wing crypto-Marxist. In fact he says: "For Rick Perry to say that we can't secure the border, that's treasonous."
Ron Paul
is asking what changes the candidates would make to the White House. Really.
Newt says he'd bring ballet and a chess set. Bachmann wins: "I'd bring a copy of the declaration of independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and that's it."
This is in reference to Katharine Birbalsingh's (aka @Miss_Snuffy's) extraordinary foray into the world of psychological profiling. The father of Anders Breivik, the Norwegian killer, has a lot to answer for, she declares:
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Watching England's warm-up against Wales, which consisted of Chris Smalling running into James Milner and Gareth Barry tripping over his own feet, Capello knew something was up. "Today I understood something [before the match]," he said, before awarding himself a gold star. "I knew the game would be difficult. The problem was here [tapping his head]," although the Fiver thinks the problem was there [pointing to its feet]. Not that the Italian needs to spend too much time working out why. Because after the win against Wales, Capello also had some words of advice for Chris Sutton tribute act Andy Carroll. "If he wants to be a good player he needs to drink less than the others," warned Capello, prompting the Fiver to query which others he might be talking about.
Lawyers for Professional Footballers' Association chairman Gordon Taylor said he wanted to be "vindicated or made rich" in negotiations over his controversial £700,000 phone-hacking settlement, according to News of the World's briefs. Self-serving trade union leaders? Whatever next?
Rugby World Cup memories, a big man from Stoke rolling a cigarette on television and the heartwarming tale of FC Twente's unlikely relationship with Stranraer are among the myriad delights to feature in this week's Classic YouTube.
Set up by local parents. The founders say it is necessary in an area with a shortage of places and, despite the glitz around the Canary Wharf office complex, significant deprivation. The school will have "a Christian environment, welcoming children from different faiths and backgrounds".
One of the first eight free schools approved by Michael Gove, and backed by the Church of England, this is being set up in the hall and grounds of the institution from which its gets its name. The school says it has already had four applications for each of the 15 places on offer in the reception class, highlighting a shortage of school places locally.
Today is International Literacy Day. Australia's former prime minister Kevin Rudd pointed out on his Twitter page that 800m people around the world are illiterate and, of those, two thirds are women and girls. The problem is more widespread than many people think. Yesterday, the London Evening Standard reported that more than half of London bosses say too many graduates looking for work can't spell or add up properly.
Dean is a lecturer in political theory at the schoold of politics and international studies at the University of Leeds, and he's written the piece in the attempt to explain what gender studies entail. He fervently disagrees with Martin's accusations.
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