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Some critics of the movement argue that parents may have too much freedom under current laws. Only 10 states require parents to have a high school diploma or General Equivalency Diploma to be able to teach. "It's a giant step backward," argues Thomas Shannon, executive director of the National School Boards Association, which represents more than 15,000 public-school boards across the country. "People tend to think, as one old basketball coach said, that everybody can boil water and coach basketball, and they kind of feel the same way about teaching. They just don't know what they...
...played live, for the first time, from some ghostly Fillmore stage. There is even a harmony in the chorus that is near Beatlesesque. On its own, this song is a demonstration that Young never has to worry about the depredations of rust. He has performed a classic Young leapboth backward and forward. Bymaking one of his periodic reunions with Crazy Horse, the stormy band that shakes him loose and with which he recorded his classic early albums, Young has given himself a permanent lease on renewal...
North Korean diplomats have exasperated Americans since the Korean War, when the top U.S. armistice negotiator denounced them as "treacherous savages." Last week U.S. diplomats felt much the same as the third round of talks in Geneva to halt Pyongyang's nuclear-development program not only stalled but slid backward...
...year's favorite sport among serious Hollywood filmmakers. Oliver Stone's hysterical Natural Born Killers posits a pair of serial killers who become national heroes after they are glamorized on a tabloid TV show. Stone is too fuzzy-headed a satirist to realize that he has got it precisely backward. Tabloid shows like A Current Affair and America's Most Wanted may be guilty of many things, but glorifying criminals is hardly one of them. With their sensationalistic re-creations of lurid crimes, tear- jerking interviews with bereaved family members and relentlessly alarmist tone, the tabloids have, more likely, helped...
...bishops' counterproposal -- that abortion should be made a "supplemental" benefit for which women could pay extra -- would be a step backward for pro-choicers, most of whose insurance companies routinely finance the services. Says Colorado Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder: "We are totally opposed to women getting private insurance for their private parts...