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...Alan M. Dershowitz is Frankfurter Professor...
...Alan Ebenstein, 38, an economist and member of the Santa Barbara school board, answers both questions with a qualified yes. "As we emphasize English more at the elementary level," he predicts, "we'll have more success at the secondary level." Armando Vallejo, director of the Casa de la Raza, the community center that housed the alternative academy set up by the boycotters, retorts that abolishing bilingual classes amounts to "cultural genocide...Kids sit in the back of the classroom for a couple of years without understanding, and they get disillusioned. That's when they join gangs...
...surprised that Mother Teresa wasn't recognized as one of those who made history last year [Dec. 29-Jan. 5]. Surely she contributed more to this world than Princess Diana and U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan. A lady of leisure who spent her short life with royal jokers and playboys is hailed as one who shaped 1997? And a human being who tirelessly spent her entire life tending to the destitute doesn't warrant any mention? That omission makes me wonder where we are headed. SAM SWAMINATHAN Dubai, United Arab Emirates...
...Alan K. Simpson is known to speak his mind, peppering his commentary with rather colorful metaphors and the occasionally salty phrase...
...Alan Simpson rose to the position of Republican whip before retiring from the Senate...