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bout $2 billion, which in one fell swoop will raise the state's per pupil spending close to the national average. California has lagged well below average, and the teachers union had threatened to put the issue on the November ballot.In addition to eliminating state income taxes for publicschool teachers, Davis has also proposed a onetime tax rebate to all taxpayers. If approved, single filers would get a check later this year for $150 and joint filers a rebate of $300.Both proposals show a savvy approach to easing the tax burden, say analysts.In California, and the US as a whole, there is no evident groundswell for lower taxes. Yet a number of states have enacted tax relief, usually with onetime rebates or lowering targeted levies, like the automobile excise tax. That is a far different approach than the broad reduction in income and propertytax rates that were demanded in the late 1970s.Indeed, Davis was chief of staff when Jerry Brown's administration was blindsided by California's tax revolt in 1976. Some ana
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 ering, why don't you send somebody down to help usAnd God replies, I did send somebody down. I sent you. Life is about who we are and what we're doing here, Roos explains.Roos consulted religious scholars such as Martin Marty and Karen Armstrong. As the film examines each historical era, he says, respected experts in that area of history lend their comments.While the film does not mince words about subjects like the Inquisition, Roos strove for an even hand.We will let all the voices be heard, and let the audience decide about the controversial themes, he says.Extraordinary care, he says, was taken to avoid judging the past by the values of the 20th century. Roos explains that when church and state were intertwined in Europe it was because there was no infrastructure for civil law in a feudal society dominated by a few aristocrats and their arbitrary judgments. The church had a hierarchy and a structure that it used to provide civil authority.Yet there is no question about how the filmmaker feels about the Amer
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 ury. But what do you plan to do for the next half centuryI don't want it to be a slogan century, she adds.The sisters aim to provoke that kind of deeper thinking through the stories of those who were children in 1948. They concluded all interviews by asking about making peace. And often, the answers were surprising.The project was an ambitious one. When most of their peers were spending their summer vacations at play, Rawan and Dima were combing Palestinian towns and villages for refugees who were forced to flee when they too, were just children.The two set out to hear the stories of children  who accounted for about half of the 800,000 refugees. All of their interview subjects were between the ages of 8 and 14 at the time of the war.Now, Expulsion in the Memory of Children, first published in Jordan last year, is being funded for a second printing by the Palestinian Committee for Education, Culture and Science, with funding from the Arab branch of UNESCO, the United Nations' educational and cultural arm. Rawan
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 en.Yet in a country where portraits of the king hang in every business and political opponents are still arrested, democracy is not always easy to recognize.Mohammed VI founded the Equity and Reconciliation Commission in 2004 to investigate human rights crimes committed by the nation's police, Army, and secret services.Our mission is to search for the truth, Benzreki says. To create a democratic society, people have to know the truth, to know their history. That's the way to achieve a culture of transparency, and the only way that people will know how to choose their future.Indeed, before concluding its investigations in April, the commission analyzed 22,000 cases and compensated victims like Ammed ben Saleek, whose father and grandfather were arrested in the late 1950s, and who, while searching for them when he was 13, was himself captured and tortured.Yet because it was not conceived as a judicial body, the commission cannot prosecute defendants. Some experts, like Lahcen Haddad, a professor and civil society a
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