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...Middlesex Superior Court judge is currently deliberating on a motion to dismiss the charges against the defendants in the Commonwealth Day School case, one of the most controversial legal battles in the city...
...nature of what the city manager does, he might be considered conservative," said Wolf, dismissing the allegation that the more liberal majority on the council might dismiss Healy because of his conservative bent...
...base, Colorado's Amendment Two and Tampa's revocation serve to legitimize prejudice and to encourage acts of discrimination against bisexual, gay and lesbian people. These two referenda dismiss the humanity and the civil rights of bisexual, gay and lesbian citizens of the United States...
...cheerfully philistine business community used to dismiss as peripheral the concerns of philosophers and artists. But when the neoconservatives brought into the party some academicians who were not economists, the scholars began to wonder why they had to check their intellectual luggage at the door. The answer is that the culture of the Republican Party is hostile to independent scholarship. This shows best in the religious arena, where Fundamentalists think all positions but their own -- those, for instance, of a Mario Cuomo or a Jesse Jackson, of a Bill Moyers or a Marian Wright Edelman -- are not truly religious...
School choice provides such an opportunity. Vouchers can help bring us closer to educational egalitarianism if used in conjunction with efforts to shake up school bureaucracy and increase funding. Now that a different approach has been offered, America should not be so quick to dismiss...