Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have a low probability of meeting the constitutional standard," Superintendent Thomas W. Payzant said of the recent conservative tenor of the federal court system...
...Boston Public schools faced a major blow in November 1998, when the first circuit court ruled in favor of Sarah Wessman, a white student who claimed that race-based admissions policies illegal denied her admission to the exam-based Boston Latin School...
...united in our belief that long court battle would only distract us from our real challenge of raising the level of achievement in all our schools," Menino said...
Willie argued that the recent suit is "substantially different" from the Wessman case and deserves a court battle. "No one got kicked out of school because of their race. No one was harmed," he said. "What we did was guarantee that everyone had to be included...
...then I'm swimming in theory and evidence and Supreme Court cases and all sorts of dry, dense academic materials. Pretty soon, I've lost all desire to read anything more than a newspaper (which, thankfully, I still enjoy reading...