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...November is a ballot initiative seeking to drastically curtail bilingual education in the Commonwealth. Question 2 was proposed by Ron Unz, a California millionaire who has pursued a personal crusade against bilingual education across the country. Unz has already succeeded in persuading voters in Arizona and California to abolish bilingual programs, but he faces more opposition in Massachusetts, which has the oldest bilingual education law in the country...
...everyone is convinced that this year—or any year in the foreseeable future—will be early decision’s swan song. Many admissions officials at influential colleges are still devoted to early decision, and even if a consensus to abolish early decision did exist, a single collective action would potentially be treated as an antitrust violation. “It’s been too helpful to too many schools,” says Jacques Steinberg, author of The Gatekeepers, a new book on Wesleyan’s admissions process...
...weeks ago, Boston University’s administration demanded that Dr. James Tracy, headmaster at Boston University Academy—a Boston University-funded prep school—abolish its two-year old Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA). The students of the Academy and Boston University alike have decried the elimination of the GSA as another example of Boston University’s conservative—and often controversial—ideas on education...
...first round of the U.S. open in New York City, Pete Sampras was steamrolling Spain's Albert Portas. A dozen or so rows behind the court, Rino Tommasi was pondering the merits of mixed doubles. "It's pointless," he said. "I wish they would abolish it." Seated next to him, Gianni Clerici disagreed: "Mixed doubles has helped to grow the sport." Tommasi laughed. "Yeah, but only when the man and the woman got together after the match and conceived a tennis-playing baby...
...Millennium by purifying and perfecting America. Ministers preached America as Revelation's New Jerusalem. Many colonists saw the Revolution in millennial terms, with George III as the Antichrist. Those most convinced, whom we would now call Evangelicals, helped shape the nation's culture of civic engagement, founding movements to abolish dueling, drinking, slavery and other sins. By the mid-1800s, some announced confidently that the Millennium might be a mere three years away...