He hopes the focus on fixing crumbling schools will give Democrats an election year edge. Some Jenny Craig weight-loss franchises are refusing to run the new Monica Lewinsky ads, saying the former White House intern at the center of President Clinton's impeachment scandal is not an appropriate role model. The handover was quick and unemotional. Days after resolution of a hijacking crisis that inflamed tensions between India and Pakistan, Sen. Minority Leader Tom Daschle is leading a congressional delegation to South Asia to discuss trade and security, including the delicate issue of nuclear proliferation. Teachers and students in this small town in western Montana are used to scraping by or doing without.
Textbooks are in short supply.
And space is so tight that classes are held on the stage at one end of the cafeteria. The Detroit News.