Islam, an architect, is theheadofthe Urban StudyGroup, a small band of architects founded in 2004 that are campaigning to save the cultural heritage of Puran Dhaka, the most historic area in the city.
They cannot change the subject to defence without raising the question of Iraq and the growing rows among leading Republicans over what to do about it (James Baker, secretary of state under George Bush senior and headof a groupof wise men known as the Iraq StudyGroup, all but argued this week that the invasion was a mistake).
Yet a January 2010 Impact Study by the federal Department of Health and Human Services that compared Head Start participants to a control group found that virtually all gains in vocabulary, math, and other skills realized by Head Start children had dissipated by the time the students completed the third grade.