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...Peace with Dignity won't come easily. For all the bipartisan bonhomie that has marked the Senate proceedings, Democrats aren't inclined to do much to help Republicans save face with their party's Clinton-loathing right wing. The G.O.P. proposal with the most momentum last week, the so-called finding-of-fact proposal, would have cataloged the offenses that Senators believed had been proved in the trial, allowing them to affirm that the President had coached witnesses and lied to the grand jury. The proposal was almost indistinguishable in content from the punishment preferred by most Democrats--censure...
...print. That means it will be hard but not impossible to restrict online smut. While rejecting Congress's new law, the Philadelphia judge pointed to some restrictions that might be permissible. The Portland jury verdict is a timely reminder that on the Internet, as in other media, imminent threats aren't protected by the First Amendment...
Between 1987 and 1997, half a trillion dollars flowed in from international investors. Initially the money was a godsend. It gave companies access to world-class technology and know-how. But in cities such as Jakarta or Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok, there aren't a whole lot of world-class companies. And as share prices of those rare firms rose, investors poured money into other, less well-run companies. At the height of the boom, in 1996, office space in Bangkok was commanding First World rents; in Jakarta supermodels Claudia Schiffer and Naomi Campbell inaugurated a Fashion Cafe...
Florida grade-schoolers aren't the only ones sweating new standardized tests these days. With President Clinton's proposal for national reading and math tests shelved by Congress, states are rushing to roll out comprehensive tests of their own. In the past two years, some 20 states have unveiled custom-made exams intended to hold students (and their schools) to higher educational standards. What's more, unlike the old-style multiple-choice exams, in which lucky guesses often padded scores, tests in more and more states now include subjective "performance questions" that ask students to craft essays and show their...
...many states, the tests have sparked worry about the number of students who aren't measuring up. Virginia's board of education disclosed last month that nearly 98% of the state's schools failed to meet suggested accreditation minimums on the new Standards of Learning test, though many educators claim the test was unfair because it was not geared specifically to school curriculums. In Massachusetts, which introduced its exam last spring, more than 80% of fourth-graders got a failing score or a "needs improvement" in English; half of all 10th-graders failed the math portion of the test. Governor...