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COLLEGE PARK, Md. – North Carolina Sen. John Edwards proposed major education reforms to improve school and teacher quality and to make higher education more accessible and affordable, in a speech Thursday at the University of Maryland. Edwards, a top contender for the Democratic nomination for president in 2004, said …

NEW YORK – Baz Luhrmann is upfront about the challenge: “Bringing Italian opera to Broadway is not the easiest way to have a hit,” he says with a laugh. “I’m used to it. Everything I’ve ever made has been an enormous risk — with people saying, ‘Are you crazy?’ I’m …

Americans credit President Bush’s popularity and his handling of what to do about Iraq as chief reasons for Republican success in the midterm elections, a poll indicates. When given a list of factors in the election and asked which were major reasons for the GOP’s success, those questioned in a …