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Similar experiences in other cities resulted in a budget crunch that finally brought to a head the whole complex question of how education of all Americans can be made more nearly equal-and more equitably financed. That conundrum is now before the U.S. Supreme Court. Since 1971, courts in seven states-Texas, Arizona, California, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey and Wyoming-have ruled that using local property taxes to finance public education is unconstitutional. Similar cases are pending in 24 other states. The courts reason that the quality of a child's education should not be determined by the wealth...
...years. Nabokov's Ada, though not quite Pharaonic, elegantly proffered a half sister as better than none. Gore Vidal diddled the subject in Two Sisters, and if there was a moral to the convoluted enigmas of Anthony Burgess's MF, it was never commit incest without a conundrum...
...Legal Conundrum. Last week the crime was apparently solved, but not before four more billboards bit the dust along Interstate 96 north of Ann Arbor, Mich. Arrested by suspicious police, who spotted an ax and a saw in the back of their car, six Ann Arbor high school boys readily admitted that they were billboard bandits. All excellent students, the bandits include the president of the senior class at Huron High School, a member of the senior executive board, a member of the student council and a debater who most recently distinguished himself by his analysis of Government anti-pollution...
Booked on felony charges ("malicious destruction of property"), the suspects freely acknowledged their raids on Interstate 96, but all pleaded innocent -thus posing a nice legal conundrum for prosecuting attorneys. The trouble is that all billboards along Michigan's interstate highways became illegal in 1966, when a new state law required state highway officials to remove or relocate such signs at least 660 ft. from the road. Since Michigan officials widely ignored the law, the students figured that cutting down outlaw signs was all in a good cause. A judge may have a different opinion, but the cutters...
Ever since this recurrent set of experiences in the Marine Corps became part of my sense of presence when dealing with people, I have encountered a new kind of conundrum. Before, the problem of group identity had been one of adopting roles traditionally presented to me for acquisition. All of them had been imposed by an outside agency, all had taken a certain amount of effort to attain, but all had needed to be reassessed and either put off, or reassumed on a different basis...