We must go forward in our commitment to the new basics, giving parents greater authority and making sure good teachers are rewarded for hard work and achievement through merit pay.

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And even when the Beltway zombies made a modest achievement to cut spending through an automatic sequester agreed to in August 2011, they work at its reversal before it can take place this year.

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But athletes are starting to push back, contending that they work too hard to have their fame tarnished by the claims that they were won through chemistry rather than through personal achievement.

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