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...rights (guaranteeing basic civil liberties and preventing undue searches). Unless they can invoke a special circumstance, such as a mental disability, kids often have thin grounds on which to base a defense against school punishment. That's because the U.S. Supreme Court has eroded student protections granted in the 1960s. In 1995 Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a caustic decision allowing drug testing of students. "Minors," he said, "lack some of the most fundamental rights of self-determination--including even the right of liberty in its narrow sense, i.e., the right to come and go at will." The ruling was widely...
POSSIBLE RATIONALE Both Dharma and Dylan are throwbacks to the 1960s...
...think that either side, Rothko or Harvard, had a full understanding of what to do with the murals. There was subliminal misunderstanding all around, but it was pretty subliminal," relates Marjorie B. Cohn, Curator of Prints, who was present to see the murals installed in early 1960s...
DIED. LESTER BOWIE, 58, theatrical avant-garde jazz trumpeter and founding member of the Art Ensemble of Chicago; of liver cancer; in Brooklyn, New York. A key voice in the experimental-jazz movement of the 1960s in Chicago, Bowie recorded and performed in Europe and the U.S. for 35 years--often in his trademark white coat...
...sounded a bit like one--the late Leander Perez. "I really resent outsiders coming in and telling us how to run our schools," Goetter whined, conjuring up memories of the legendary segregationist's threat to bury "outside agitators" in the bayous of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish during the 1960s. It was a lousy choice of words...