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Cleveland? Cincinnati? Nothing...
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...offers more options short of suspension, including in-school detention. Yet the nettlesome racial disparity persists, along with the smoldering debate over whether black students are getting fair treatment. Indeed, the 1974 case that is at the root of the controversy was supposedly settled 10 years ago when the Cincinnati board of education agreed to a laundry list of remedies to desegregate the schools. But there was one caveat: After seven years, the courts would review compliance. In 1991 a judge found that the schools remained deficient in three areas, including discipline, and ordered a study, which confirmed that black...
Charges of discrimination rock the Cincinnati school system...
...number of historians, however, have proposed detailed theories that minimize Jewish involvement -- including that of the Jewish religious leadership. Ellis Rivkin of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati, Ohio, contends that real religious courts were separate from the Sanhedrin, the council of Jewish functionaries that dealt with Jesus after his arrest. He depicts the Sanhedrin as a political body that collaborated with the Roman occupation forces and lacked any religious legitimacy. "Neither ((Jesus')) religious teachings nor his beliefs could have been on trial -- only their political consequences," says Rivkin. In his book, though, Brown sifts the ancient documents, Jewish and pagan...