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Adding fuel to the already raging speculative fire, Kennedy also joined Scalia and Thomas in a dissent against the majority opinion in another abortion-related decision Wednesday. By a 6-3 margin, the Justices upheld a Colorado law requiring abortion protesters to keep a specified distance from clinic patients and employees, concluding that the statute does not violate the First Amendment rights of the protesters. And while the Colorado decision was not nearly as close, Kennedy's position rattled many pro-choice advocates, who have come to count on him as a dependable if somewhat unenthusiastic defender of abortion rights...
...home with the kids, but he and I will soon rendezvous with 19,998 of Bruce's faithful at Madison Square Garden. Among them, no doubt, will be some of the lovebirds we've encountered at backstreets.com the husbands who've scored tickets to surprise their wives; the Colorado couple who planned their honeymoon around the New York concert dates. Christopher Phillips, the site's overseer, says one woman asked him to ask the Boss to propose to her boyfriend for her at an upcoming show. (Phillips couldn't oblige, but, Bruce, if you're reading this, an engagement hangs...
Last week Roy Romer, 71, former Governor of Colorado, was appointed to what might be the second most difficult job in America: superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Only a month ago, another educational outsider, Wall Street lawyer Harold Levy, 47, was officially named New York City schools chancellor, No. 1 on the mission-impossible list (he had been serving as interim chancellor since January). The two had never met, so last week TIME introduced them through an early-morning conference call. Excerpts...
...stakes have risen, so has the pressure to perform--and the frustration among parents, students and educators. In the past year, protest-the-test groups have sprouted in at least 36 states. In Colorado, more than a thousand parents, teachers and students surrounded the state capitol in March and demanded that Governor Bill Owens take the test. (He too declined.) Parents in Louisiana, Indiana and California have gone a step further, filing lawsuits alleging that the tests violate their children's civil rights. In Illinois, 200 students claimed they flunked the test on purpose. Teachers are taking to the streets...
...national level, teams from the University of Denver and the University of Colorado continue to dominate, as they step out their back doors onto the Rocky Mountains for the afternoon practice...