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...funding is this: every child educated at home saves taxpayers money. Home schooling's real threat is in making clear that public schools--and the teachers, administrators and government officials who run them--are less successful in educating children than average parents with no special training or certification. LAURA DERRICK Austin, Texas...
...debut of Black Star (Mos Def and Talib Kweli) is a virtual symphony of African internationalism. The group's name alludes to Marcus Garvey's back-to-Africa nationalism, and the lyrics paint a red, green and black mural stretching from Coltrane to Du Bois to Ishmael Reed to Derrick Bell. Brown Skin Lady is a love song both to a woman and to Africa itself ("I know women on the continent got it/Nigeria and Ghana, you know they got it/Tanzania, Namibia and Mozambique...
...Florida's fight to protect our coastline" and told Bush the words he's going to be hearing a lot for the next few years: not in my back yard. "Any lease sales that do occur in the 181 area" - a patch of energy-rich ground in the derrick-free eastern part of the gulf - "will occur off the coast of Alabama, not Florida," he said...
...years before coming to Columbus, and he admits he depends on colleagues to explain budget matters. "I was talking with a fellow member about an item, and he said, 'Well, it's only $104 million.'" says Carmichael. "I thought 10 bucks was a lot of money." Rookie Derrick Seaver was facing high school math this time last year, running for an open seat at 18. Life as a legislator is a little different. "The amount of time and effort that goes into the job was an overwhelming shock," says Seaver...
December 2, 1974: Derrick A. Rall Jr., the only black professor at Harvard Law School, threatens to resign if HLS does not substantially increase efforts to hire minority faculty...