An alternative intelligence view From Ha'aretz Iran: Israel's effort to stymie President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nuclear program in an elegant manner hit the skids. If John McCain does not make it to the White House, Israel is likely to be faced with a cruel decision at the end of the decade: to attack a nuclearizing Iran or accept a nuclear-capable Iran. Israel under Olmert is not doing what it needs to do to prevent it. Israel under Olmert has no consistent, credible and effective policy for coping with Hamastan's Qassams. Israel under...

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Nashville firm defends alternative school From The Tennessean A Nashville company that runs public alternative schools is being accused of operating an Atlanta school like "a warehouse for poor children of color" where "academics are virtually non-existent." Eight students made these and other allegations in a lawsuit filed Tuesday against Community Education Partners and the Atlanta Independent School System, its superintendent and its school board. The Atlanta alternative school named in the suit is a public school for students at risk of failing in...

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Onuora making most of alternative therapy From Liverpool Echo OLYMPIC hopeful Anyika Onuora has turned to alternative training techniques to maximise her hopes of success this year. Onuora said: "My coach has been pushing me much harder this winter, upping the ante in my training and changing a few things for this Olympic season. The 25-year-old, who started on the back nine at the 6,979-yard Ross Watson-designed layout near Kuala Lumpur, parred his first hole, the 10th, before getting into gear with three consecutive birdies to move to three under.

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Study: Public Pension Plans Love Alternative Investments From www.finalternatives.com A new survey of investment practices at public pension plans has found an uptick in plans investing in alternative asset classes, with just over half of those polled investing in some sort of alternative investment product. "Our survey found that public pension plans are using very sophisticated and broad investment strategies to manage their assets," said Francie Heller, head of the Bear Stearns Pension, Endowment and Foundation Services Group. "The results reveal that investing in...

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The Alternative to Black Tie From www.mensflair.com In his section on dinner jacket alternatives, he tells us that the odd jacket was perfectly acceptable as black tie, as long as it maintained similar texture and structure to the full suit. The first obvious material was velvet, usually in black and worn with black wool trousers. And as if to bless the discovery, I already had both black wool and black linen trousers. So for  60, the same price as two hires of a black tie suit from Moss Bros, I had a fully working outfit I could wear to all...

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