U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has announced legislation to fund special education programs across the country. Clinton (D-Chappaqua) is an original co-sponsor of the measure called the "IDEA Full Funding Act of 2003." According to a news release from Clinton, New York would receive $1.2 billion over the next ten years. Albany County would receive more than $7.6 million in the 2003-2004 fiscal year if the bill becomes law. source
Meanwhile, look at the "intellectuals" (will someone please define that?) who are supporting the murderous Castro:
HAVANA (Reuters) - More than 160 foreign artists and intellectuals, including Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez, have come out in defense of Cuba even as many of their peers condemn recent repression on the Communist-run island, one of the campaigners said on Thursday.
Latin American Nobel laureates Garcia Marquez, Rigoberta Menchu, Aldolfo Perez Esquivel and South African writer Nadine Gordimer, also a Nobel prize winner, have signed a declaration of support, Mexican sociologist Pablo Gonzalez said. U.S. singer Harry Belafonte and U.S. actor Danny Glover are also among the personalities who have signed the two-paragraph declaration "To the Conscience of the World" so far, Gonzalez announced to a May Day rally in Havana.
"A single power is inflicting grave damage to the norms of understanding, debate and mediation among countries," the declaration says, referring to the United States and the war in Iraq. At this very moment, a strong campaign of destabilization against a Latin American nation has been unleashed. The harassment against Cuba could serve as a pretext for an invasion," it continues.
.... At the Thursday rally Castro told critics, particularly on the left, that their words could be used to justify a U.S. invasion. full story
What qualifies Glover and Belafonte as intellectuals, other than their hatred for President Bush and anti-war protesting? 
