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This question recently arose on the world's newest intellectual battleground, the Internet. Many who are familiar with the Internet use a service known as Usenet news. Usenet is a collection of "newsgroups", which are essentially inaccurately-named on-line discussion groups. Like most aspects of the Internet, Usenet has no central administration. Every institution that maintains a site on the 'Net (colleges, businesses, etc.) decides for itself which, if any, newsgroups it will carry...
...PRESIDENTIAL-CAMPAIGN BATTLEGROUND SHIFTS TO Washington, Tom Daschle seems an odd candidate for the role he is about to play as President Clinton's first line of defense on Capitol Hill. A slight and boyish-looking man of 48, he had never managed a major bill before becoming Senate Democratic leader last year. Almost incapable of eye-to-eye engagement with the television camera, he prefers to read his speeches, softly and deliberately, from behind a pair of glasses. "He looks like a choirboy," sighs veteran South Carolina Democrat Fritz Hollings, a fire breather...
Once again, school has become the battleground for the question of the separation of church and state. First there were debates about evolution and creationism, and then there were arguments about prayer in school and moments of silence. Now, the Salt Lake City Board of Education has initiated the ban because its members are incensed by the idea of a gay-straight student alliance at East High School...
...fair that schools should end up as the battleground for every political campaign. In a time when Americans despair of ways to keep students in school, to raise falling test scores and battle drugs, alcohol and teenage pregnancy, it is indeed a luxury to be able to treat teenagers as pawns in a church and state battle. Most schools are too worried about increasing class sizes and decrepit buildings to do that. But in Utah, they have the time and the power to wage a battle...
After finishing a distant fourth in the Granite State, Forbes took Delaware's primary Saturday, then poured millions of dollars into television and radio ads to win Arizona, which was expected to be the battleground of a one-on-one confrontation between Dole and Buchanan...