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...federal level, 37 states enacted what are now known as Blaine Amendments, spare clauses which ban any monetary or land appropriation by any government entity to institutions deemed “sectarian”—a term then used by the Know Nothings as a code word for Catholics. While a new meaning, which is applied broadly to all religious schools, has supplanted the historical one, herein lies the connection between the Catholics of the 1800s and their socioeconomic successors one hundred years later...
...samurai rebellion against the new, dishonorable, Westernizing ways that his army symbolizes. In the first, brilliantly staged fight, Algren is captured by the samurai and sequestered for a long winter in their remote village, where there's nothing much to do but learn the harsh yet entirely admirable samurai code...
...Isenberg, a former Bell Labs researcher and respected industry observer. Vonage, for example, has 70,000 customers paying $34.99 a month for unlimited calls in the U.S. and Canada. You just link your phone to your broadband connection via an adapter. An added perk: you can choose any area code in the country. Buy a second line for $4.99 a month, for instance, and select the area code of the college your daughter attends so that all her calls home will be local. Companies like Packet8, VoicePulse and Addaline all offer some variation on the Vonage deal. Voicepulse, for example...
...abortion is just the beginning: a tax on the wealthiest of the wealthy estates in America is the medieval-sounding “Death Tax;” a flaw in the tax code making some couples pay extra is an unthinkable “Marriage Penalty.” A sweeping, embarrassing bill now resented by most of the educational community continues to be called the “No Child Left Behind” act, while a dramatic weakening of the Clean Air Act goes by the name of “Clear Skies...
...traveling without the accompaniment of live music. The MBTA had planned to put its Street Performer Regulations into effect on Monday. The regulations would, among some two dozen other provisions, prohibit amplified performances and use of several acoustic instruments—like trumpets—and impose a dress code for all performers. Fortunately popular criticism of the regulations—in the days after they were announced, some 6,000 people signed a petition protesting the new rules—motivated the MBTA to halt enforcement of its Street Performer Regulations for a week for further discussion. The MBTA...