1.  Any rounded education includes dialogue about the bad old days of blatant academic discrimination and racism, along with discussions about lingering inequities.

2.  Any savings, though, may be offset because employees who previously took no sick days may make full use of their PTO days.

3.  Deputy Prime Minister Miroljub Labus predicted the move would occur within days.

4.  Denmon flew to Texas for a few days to be with his grandfather, who is seriously ill.

5.  Dennis Eckersley, starting his second life with the Red Sox, remembers the passion from his days here in the late 1970s and early '80s.

6.  Dentistry can do just about anything that a patient wants these days.

7.  Denver is said to be a hot spot these days.

8.  Defiant crowds chanted "assassins, assassins, assassins," making the scenes of anarchy reminiscent of the turbulent days of military rule between 1976 and 1983.

9.  Cuba is still "communist," whatever that means these days.

10.  Cubbage sounded excited, maybe too excited, as he nominated himself Wednesday for a job that he will probably have for a few days.