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...Philadelphia and Boston as the financial and media capital of the country. Virginia, cradle of Jefferson and his followers, and Ohio, bastion of the post-- Civil War GOP, have elected more Presidents because of regional ties to a major party during its political heyday, but New York was the battleground state that both parties fought...
...Today's decision should weaken that charge, but Mark Tushnet, a professor at Harvard Law School, says these issues may be the next legal battleground for school diversity. "School systems are going to try to achieve these (diversity) goals," he explains, "and they'll use proxies, and it will be litigated." And that means the Supreme Court will have yet another school integration case on its hands before we really know what schools can do to achieve "true racial equality...
...West Bank may be the next battleground between the Palestinian militants and Israel. The U.S. and Israel's plan to shower Abbas with money and concessions in the West Bank territories will never work, the commander vows. "The Israelis may give him money, but they'll never give Abbas a Palestinian state. The Israelis are still arresting people in the cities and towns. All we have to do is launch one attack in the West Bank and Israel will double back on all of its promises to Abbas." The only answer, the commander said, was for Abbas to renew ties...
...partisan campaign will focus its efforts in early-primary and battleground states with TV, radio and print ads, a website and on-the-ground volunteers. It's counting on parents, who are increasingly anxious about whether their kids can compete with the studious youth of India and China, to press reluctant candidates for concrete plans. The fate of other top domestic issues, observes philanthropist Eli Broad, ultimately depends on educating the next generation. "If we want to maintain our standard of living, pay for health care, protect the environment and have the resources to take care of the elderly...
...latest battleground between the two men is the 28-word question put to the country in a referendum held on Sunday asking Soviet citizens whether the nation should be preserved as a "renewed federation of equal sovereign republics." The referendum, the first in the nation's history, had to be voted upon by a majority of the country's roughly 200 million eligible voters for the result to be valid; even then, the outcome has only symbolic meaning, since the details of the new federation must still be worked out in bargaining between the republics and Moscow...