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When desegregation laws were passed in the 1960s, school districts were forced to bus children from one part of the district to another to maintain a satisfactory level of integration in each school. The high court rulings in the early ’90s mean that schools no longer need to bus children...
...seems that Bush is set on going to war, no matter the outcome of the inspections. Yet vocal protests—on this campus and others across the nation—to what is seemingly an inevitable war have been quiet compared to protests of the 1960s. Admittedly, this is not Vietnam, and a war on the other side of the world without a draft does not rile up students in quite the same...
Cognitive therapy is one of the most virulently anti-Freudian strains of post-Freudian therapy, and it has become one of the dominant approaches to therapy today. It was pioneered in the early 1960s by the psychiatrist Aaron Beck, who was trained as a Freudian but--in classic Oedipal fashion--rebelled against his master. Beck dismissed Freud's ideas about the subconscious as so much scientifically unverifiable cigar smoke. In their place he crafted a quick, pragmatic therapeutic approach that dispensed with abstract theories and focused on results. Cognitive therapy attacks such symptoms as anxiety and depression by "coaching" patients...
DIED. MAURICE GIBB, 53, bass player and keyboardist in the sibling disco trio the Bee Gees, from cardiac arrest following intestinal surgery; in Miami Beach, Florida. The hat-loving Gibb (pictured in the middle) was the least flamboyant of the brothers, whose string of 1960s hits was followed by the chart-busting 1977 soundtrack for the film Saturday Night Fever, which made them the most commercially successful trio in pop history. Believing Maurice died "unnecessarily," his brothers vowed to investigate his death. Although three-part harmony is integral to the Bee Gees' sound, the brothers plan to continue...
...ARRESTED. PETE TOWNSHEND, 57, legendary guitarist of the seminal 1960s rock group the Who; on suspicion of possessing, making and incitement to distribute indecent images of children; in London. Townshend admitted to visiting child-porn websites as part of research for an autobiography exploring the possibility of his own childhood sexual abuse...