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Roundtable for Aug. 26 - Elected school board, stem cell research, Russ and Robin Carnahan

By Richard H. Weiss, Beacon contributing editor

Posted 7:50 am Thu., 8.26.10

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Nation
- Protecting copyright/restricting artistic offerings: Supreme Court says restoring copyright protection to works that had been in the public domain or recognizing international copyright does not infringe on the rights of orchestras, theater groups or others to use the work. | Lyle Denniston
- Charter school tax credit could help ensure success: Modeled after the low income housing tax credit, it would reward high-performing charters. | Ian Galloway/Federal Reserve
- Why all public higher education should be free: In the current system, as students are priced out of colleges and end up at for-profit schools, everyone pays more, and we produce fewer graduates. | Bob Samuels/Huffington Post
- With Newt Gingrich, there is less than meets the ear: He isn't a man with a big ego; he is an ego with a person attached. | Steve Chapman/Chicago Tribune
Region
- Lessons for education in Cardinals comeback. | Ashley Cadwell, blog
- Cardinals were a team of destiny: They were a better team than they appeared in August, and because baseball caters to the unlikely these days, they were a team that did the remarkable when things started going right. | Joe Posnanski/Sports Illustrated
- Quinn sold out Illinois: And now his feeble bid to unravel his own craven deal with state workers has been stomped down by an arbitrator, but even if a court eventually rules for the governor, the damage is done. | Chicago Tribune editorial
- China hub idea for St. Louis is a questionable subsidy: The sheer size of the package is eyebrow-raising, given that a tax credit is the same as outright spending from the point of view of the state budget. | Kansas City Star editorial
World
- Don't underestimate younger audiences: When 12-year-olds in Marissa, Ill., studied Britten's "War Requiem," their understanding was deeper than I could have ever imagined. | Christine Brewer/NPR
- Luck as America's foreign policy: Those who deny that the United States is in another war for the purpose of changing another regime are kidding themselves. | Jim Talent/National Review
- The battle in Bangkok : The immediate crisis in Thailand seems to have cooled, but the danger of a civil war is far from other. | editorial, The Economist
- Lonely times for German chancellor : Other EU leaders are no longer cheering Angela Merkel on and popularity within Germany is declining. What happened? | Philipp Wittrock and Severin Weiland, Der Spiegel

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