Word: districters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite these changes, the school district faces many of the same issues it has grappled with in recent years...
While budgets are a perpetually contentious issue for all school systems, district dollars have been especially controversial in Cambridge because many schools ask parents to contribute to the classroom coffers--and parents in some neighborhoods of Cambridge are better able to pay up than others...
Before the meeting began, Carron--a self-described moderate Democrat representing a district in Worcester county--explained his early endorsement of Bradley...
...avoid having to face the consequences of his race baiting. In 1988, Sharpton participated in a fraudulent rape and kidnapping charge with racial overtones (the victim was a young black woman, the accused were a group of white men) and claimed to have evidence to prove that an assistant district attorney, Steve Pagones, had participated in the alleged crime. When it became clear that the accusation was false, Sharpton dug in his heels. He said, "We stated openly that Steven Pagones, the assistant district attorney did it.... If we're lying sue us, so we can go into court with...
...search and seizure. Criminal-rights activists contend that a ruling in law enforcement's favor will in esssence allow police to search and detain whomever they please, as long as they say they received a tip that the suspect was carrying a gun. In the other case, the Fourth District of Illinois upheld a 31-year-old federal statute - passed by Congress just two years after the Miranda decision - that said voluntarily given confessions are admissible evidence, even when the accused aren't read their rights. The law had never before been tested in court, but the Fourth District opined...