WASHINGTON (AP) — An education-advocacy group will begin airing ads this week seeking to nudge Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama on ways to improve the standing of U.S. schools compared with other industrialized nations.

Strong American Schools, a nonpartisan group supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation, wants the p...

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Hamish Champ: What a naughty boy, talking down the economy like that... -

"By writing about how the economy was under pressure, reporting the latest economic or retail spending survey, we hacks were only making things worse. It was, in effect, all my fault"

According to a friend of mine the Fourth Estate is largely responsible for the state of the UK economy.

If we journalists...

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