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...makes you long for the time when parents usually gave teachers the benefit of the doubt in disciplinary matters rather than challenging them on the grounds that little Johnny is perfect and any blot on his transcript will keep him out of Harvard. But the situation could get even worse. A constitutional amendment has been drafted guaranteeing that parents' rights to direct the education of their children "shall not be infringed." The amendment, being pushed by the Christian right, is on the November ballot in Colorado, and has been proposed in 28 other states. If it ever becomes...
...suspension stands, the Grille might still eliminate the blot from its record through participation in the Substance Abuse Task Force...
...suicide of Admiral Jeremy ("Mike") Boorda, the Chief of Naval Operations. Boorda and other top Navy brass were briefed on the case several times. But Navy officials insist the smuggling investigation, code-named Operation White Stallion, was perceived by Boorda and his colleagues not as another blot on the service but as evidence of its hard-nosed antidrug policy. "We've said time and time again, there's no place for drugs in the U.S. Navy," says Rear Admiral Kendall Pease, the Navy's senior spokesman. "This shows we're serious...
...entire episode is a blot on both candidates. One can safely speculate that McCurry's threat caused Baer to see the case in a different light. Clinton interfered with the process as surely as if he had flown to New York to demonstrate against the judge's original decision. Dole's post-reversal words appear equally hypocritical. When the leader of the Senate, the body with the power to remove judges, calls for a jurist's impeachment, that's pressure...
Never again would one country bulldoze a path of conquest over a neighbor. Never again would the great powers lock in a titanic death struggle ravaging the continents. More than that, the causes of war would be extinguished. Tyranny, injustice and deprivation would never again blot out the light of the world. Governments of good faith would band together under the universal benevolence of something called the United Nations...