| Education advocate takes on new role
To make change as a member of the Longview School Board, Ted Thomas has been an advocate for change at the state and federal levels. It's from those levels, after all, that most school funding comes. "Goals and vision at local level depend on state's ablity to deliver resources," said Thomas, who has served on the Longview School Board and in Washington State School Directors’ Association for more than 10 years. Next year Thomas will take his service to a new level as the president of WSSDA, which represents 1,482 school board members statewide. His swearing-in ceremony took place Nov. 17 in Seattle during the association's annual conference. As president, Thomas will continue communicate with the state's board of education and federal legislators. He will help to educate new school board members and lobby for changes in the Legislature.
Dozens of monks march again in Myanmar
More than 100 Buddhist monks marched peacefully Wednesday in a northern Myanmar town noted for its defiance of the country's military rulers, the first large protest since the junta violently crushed a wave anti-government demonstrations. The monks marched for nearly an hour in the town of Pakokku, chanting a Buddhist prayer that has come to be associated with the pro-democracy cause. They did not carry signs or shout slogans, but their action was clearly in defiance of the military government, as one monk spelled out in a radio interview. "We are continuing our protest from last month as we have not yet achieved any of the demands we asked for,'' the monk told the Democratic Voice of Burma, a Norway-based short-wave radio station and website run by dissident journalists.
Questions for Vice President Dick Cheney
Q: I've talked to a number of economists who provide advice to you, and say that you are very interested in business cycles. In late 2000 you were on "Meet the Press," and you actually predicted correctly, ahead of just about everybody, that a downturn was around the corner. That was Bill Clinton's economy. Now it's your economy. What's your candid assessment of it? THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, my track record as a forecaster, I'd go slow on. I did express the view that we were headed for a recession [in 2000]. Part of that, frankly, was based on my time [as] a corporate CEO and serving on several boards. I don't serve in those positions today and so I have a different perspective and also obviously different access to data. And I don't want to try to repeat that so-called success story.
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EVERY household in Scotland will be £10,000 a year better off within a decade, Finance Secretary John Swinney claimed yesterday. The growth in average wealth will be delivered by boosting small and medium-sized businesses, investing in industries of the future and better training, resulting in better-paid jobs, said Swinney. .
Monks march in Myanmar for first time since crackdown
YANGON, MYANMAR — More than 100 Buddhist monks marched peacefully Wednesday in a northern Myanmar town noted for its defiance of the country's military rulers, the first large protest since the junta violently crushed a wave of anti-government demonstrations. The monks marched for nearly an hour in the town of Pakokku, chanting a Buddhist prayer that has come to be associated with the pro-democracy cause. They did not carry signs or shout slogans, but their action was clearly in defiance of the military government, as one monk spelled out in a radio interview. "We are continuing our protest from last month, as we have not yet achieved any of the demands we asked for," the monk told the Democratic Voice of Burma, a Norway-based shortwave radio station and website run by dissident journalists.
Myanmar monks continue to protest
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - More than 100 Buddhist monks marched in northern Myanmar for nearly an hour yesterday, the first public demonstration since the government's deadly crackdown last month on pro-democracy protesters, several monks said.
The monks in Pakokku shouted no slogans, but one monk told the Democratic Voice of Burma, a Norway-based short-wave radio station and Web site run by dissident journalists, that the demonstration was a continuation of the protests in September.
"We are continuing our protest from last month as we have not yet achieved any of the demands we asked for," the monk told Democratic Voice of Burma.
"Our demands are for lower commodity prices, national reconciliation and immediate release of [opposition leader] Aung San Suu Kyi and all the political prisoners," said the monk, who was not identified by name.
Buddhist monks make first public march since crackdown
YANGON, Myanmar—More than 100 Buddhist monks marched and chanted in northern Myanmar for nearly an hour today, the first public demonstration since the government's deadly crackdown last month on pro-democracy protesters, two monks said. The monks in Pakokku made no political statements and shouted no slogans, but their march clearly was in defiance of the government and in solidarity with the earlier, anti-government rallies led by monks in many of Myanmar's cities in September. Those demonstrations were crushed when troops fired on protesters Sept. 27-28 in a crackdown that left at least 20 people dead by the government's count, drawing international condemnation. Opposition groups says as many as 200 people may have been killed. Pakokku, a center for Buddhist learning with more than 80 monasteries located about 390 miles northwest of the commercial center of Yangon, was the site of the first march last month by monks as they joined — and then spearheaded — the biggest anti-government protests in nearly two decades.
The CNN Wire: Thursday, Nov. 15
Pakistani president swears in interim cabinet members ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) -- Pakistan President Gen. Pervez Musharraf swore seven of his allies into a caretaker government on Friday -- a body that will oversee the parliamentary process until national elections can be held no later than Jan. 9. "An old cabinet is gone and a new cabinet -- a caretaker government -- has been sworn in," Musharraf said to applause. "Life continues, no body is permanent. One comes, one serves, tries one's best in the interest of the nation ... and then when they have to go that is the way of nature, they have to leave and this is what is democracy." The event, carried live on Pakistani state-run TV, showed the new members taking an oath to "bear true faith" to Pakistan, among other pledges.
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