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...most visible fights are occurring on the political battleground of local and statewide elections. Though the state's economy has expanded over the years to provide opportunity to new waves of immigrant workers and entrepreneurs, the political arena is less spacious. Any gain by one ethnic group represents a loss to another, so the fight over drawing new electoral- district lines based on the 1990 census has been fierce. The only point of agreement is that by 1992 the political map is likely to look very different than it has in the past...
...promises to be a hard, tough fight--a fight whose battleground is the campus, whose weapons are words, and whose soldiers are determined students...
...battleground where the forces meet tends to be the classroom. As of last year, 31 states and the District of Columbia had mandated that schools provide some form of AIDS education, and virtually every state encourages such programs. But the curriculum varies greatly among schools, even among teachers. The most ardent proponents argue that health education should begin in kindergarten and eventually include detailed instruction about the nature and risks of homosexual and heterosexual intercourse. Conservatives are appalled. "We've seen the ACT-UP and Planned Parenthood curriculum proposals," says Monsignor Woolsey. "I wouldn't put them in Times Square...
...Army Reserve, Captain Dusty Pruitt, an ordained minister, taught soldiers to defend themselves against chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Her expertise could have been vital in the war against Saddam Hussein. But during Operation Desert Storm, Pruitt was neither protecting nor ministering to soldiers in the Persian Gulf. Her battleground was the Ninth Circuit Court in California, where she was busy fighting to overturn the Army's 1986 decision to discharge her because she is a lesbian. "It's sad," she says, "that the military wastes time bothering people about what they do in their private lives rather than what...
...partly at fault; this means, for example, that a drunk driver who demolishes an illegally parked car can claim some damages from the defendant's insurer. Changes in ethical guidelines, moreover, permit attorneys to advertise for clients -- all of which has made the lawsuit business a battleground for greedy practitioners. The survey firm Jury Verdict Research estimates that jury awards to plaintiffs of $1 million or more leaped from 22 in 1974 to 558 in 1989. Those figures may be one reason why Congress is now considering a national tort-reform law aimed at restricting frivolous litigation. There is surely...