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These should be the best of times for Argentina. Its economy has enjoyed five years of more than 8 percent annual growth, it is a leading exporter of food products at a time when commodities command record prices around the world, and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's Peronist party boasts a majority in both houses of Congress. So why is the country in such a mess?
It's agreed: Miami-Dade County District Schools' teachers deserve salary increases and raises at rates agreed upon by United Teachers of Dade and the School Board during the last round of contract negotiations. But that was before the state's economy tanked, before the real-estate recession hit South Florida, before legislative- and voter-mandated property-tax cuts that reduced school districts' budgets.
Anyone trying to figure out how much money attorneys in the city of Miami fire-fee settlement case are entitled to receive won't find much help in the guideline offered by ''Model Rules of Professional Conduct'' of the American Bar Association: A lawyer shall not make an agreement for, charge or collect an unreasonable fee or an unreasonable amount for expenses.
FIU
For the past four months, Florida International University has engaged in a comprehensive evaluation of its operations and academic programs in response to the most serious budget crisis in our history. The crisis requires dramatic changes. With the input of students, staff, faculty and community members, we have succeeded in charting a new course for FIU that enhances our efficiency, sharpens our focus and affirms our commitment to educational excellence.
PRESIDENTIAL RACE
The pilgrim is making little progress. In a futile effort to convince faith-voters that he is one of them, John McCain paid a visit to the Grahams of North Carolina -- father Billy and son Franklin. After the meeting, not a word was said about the Grahams' past indiscretions concerning Muslims or Jews and neither, for that matter, was an endorsement proffered. The next guest was country singer Ricky Skaggs. He did better. He got lunch.
CHILE
Chile is Latin America's success story. Per capita income has grown from $4,720 in 1990 to $13,936 in 2007. By leaving unperturbed market-based economic policies instituted in the 1980s, the Concertación, the center-left coalition in power since 1990, led Chile to where it is today. The next frontier is breaking the $20,000 mark in per capita income, which would denote the country's full passage to development.
MIAMI-DADE SCHOOL BOARD
The Miami-Dade School Board is in meltdown. It has devolved from a collegial body that could disagree agreeably into a dysfunctional collection of competing egos and agendas that can't agree on anything. It's the gang that couldn't govern straight. Actually two gangs: The five who support Rudy Crew and the four who don't.
MCCAIN'S SERVICE
I have no idea when reverence fled these shores. That it did, however, seems obvious. What else can you conclude when the service of military men becomes a routine object of mockery and misinformation in the name of politics? Ladies and gentlemen, I give you John McCain: traitor.
Re the June 21 story Cuban: Museum's art should be returned to Cuba: The Museum of Arts and Sciences has cared for, preserved and protected the Cuban Foundation Collection, which it received from the city of Daytona Beach more than 30 years ago. The collection and original Cuban museum was donated to Daytona Beach by the Cuban Foundation, set up in 1957 for this purpose. Since then, the collection has grown more than 400 percent through gifts from various donors. We invite people to visit and experience...
In its June 30 editorial Diplomacy useful in dealing with threats The Miami Herald supports diplomacy and ''realism'' in dealing with that key ''Axis of Evil'' renegade, North Korea. On the other hand, it consistently recommends ''hanging tough'' with Cuba (EU should not rush to embrace Cuba, June 19).
It was a pleasure to read a positive article about a Caribbean nation on the front page of The Miami Herald (Jamaican lightning, June 26). It is about time for this small island nation to be recognized by a major news organization for the historic achievements of its athletes on the world stage.
