People in Poland have very emotional attitudes to politics, and when he is saying something like that people think, 'oh,we will have something like a totalitarian regime if the president is also from Platforma,'" Makowski adds that the summer holiday season may also affect the vote, since wealthier Poles tend to support Komorowski and many will be leaving for vacation over the weekend.

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The last time I did something like this was in the summer of 1982 when Fannie Mae five-year notes yielded 15% and everyone expected home mortgage defaults in Texas and California would push this agency into insolvency.

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But if she's right, and if Oprah can examine the successes of something like the Algebra Project or Detroit Summer--both built on the model of the freedom schools of the civil rights movement--then perhaps we can move beyond the realm of midday talk shows into something much more substantive: a sustainable movement that will remake our schools for the better.

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It sounds something like a soundtrack to a drive through a summer rainstorm.

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