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That may be small consolation for the Latino community, which just saw one of its members ascend to the Supreme Court but must still struggle for basic respect. Yet the study does suggest ways to fix the problem. For one thing, Timberlake says, the cable ranters should pipe down - or the audience should switch them off. "These people are entertainers seeking attention," he says. "I don't see the value of ginning up hatred of a particular group. All that does is diminish our chance to solve the problem...
...Bill Clinton was commended in some quarters for awarding the honor to Bob Dole, whom he had just defeated in the 1996 election. But many Presidents keep it within their political party. During his tenure, Jimmy Carter awarded the Medal of Freedom to liberals like anthropologist Margaret Mead, Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg and biologist Rachel Carson, and Ronald Reagan - apart from picking Hollywood friends like James Cagney, Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Stewart - came under fire for lauding anticommunists like Clare Boothe Luce and Whittaker Chambers...
...Lowdown: As the report notes, corporal punishment is banned in most juvenile correction facilities in the U.S., and yet it continues in public schools. The legal paradox can be traced to a 1977 Supreme Court ruling that found the Eighth Amendment only protects convicted criminals from cruel and unusual punishment - not students confined to a classroom. In its plea to convince federal and state lawmakers to impose a national ban on the practice, the authors point out yet another paradox, using the words of a special-ed teacher in Mississippi: "I see these children who get in fights and then...
While his Republican Party has been flailing and losing and dwindling to its base, Florida Governor Charlie Crist has remained extremely popular by governing from the middle. He has stocked his administration with Democrats, appointed a fairly liberal African-American Democrat to the state supreme court, expanded voting rights for felons, crusaded against global warming and enthusiastically supported President Obama's stimulus package. Crist's crossover appeal - along with his powerhouse skills as a fundraiser and campaigner - has made him a heavy favorite to join the Senate in 2010. To some observers, his success in the largest swing state could...
...outcome of the trial was unsurprising. "I'm afraid the verdict will be painfully obvious," Suu Kyi was heard to say in court last month. But she isn't going to prison. According to recent reports, she was stockpiling Winston Churchill's biographies and other books in anticipation of jail time. "If you are going through hell," Britain's wartime leader famously said, "keep going." Suu Kyi and her supporters can do little else...