Word: districters
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Unfortunately, the Courts may not see it that way. In 1996, the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a District decision gutting a statute that required the National Endowment for the Arts to respect "general standards of decency and respect" in its grant-awarding process. Implicit in such rulings is a reading of the First Amendment that goes something like this: whenever the state throws its weight behind a specific set of beliefs, it is establishing one worldview at the expense of another. And this the First Amendment explicitly prohibits it from doing. You don't have to support...
...never-ending saga of the JonBenet Ramsey case has convinced everyone in America of one of two things: Either the Boulder police and district attorney are among the most intellectually challenged people in the world, or JonBenet was killed by someone who is not only crazy, but also incredibly lucky. On Wednesday, the grand jury looking into the case for the past handed out its long-awaited decision: They were unable to find sufficient evidence to prosecute anyone in the death of the six-year-old beauty queen. Ramsey?s parents, long considered prime suspects in the 1996 murder, expressed...
Michael Fortier may have been a good citizen after the Oklahoma bombing, but he was still a villain beforethe crime ?- and what a crime it was. That was apparently what weighed on U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Van Bebber?s mind as he refused to abate ?- despite an appellate court?s clear wishes that he do so ?- the 12-year sentence he had given Fortier a year ago. Ordered by the appeals court to use new, lowered sentencing guidelines (involuntary manslaughter instead of first-degree murder), Bebber stuck by his guns. TIME legal correspondent Adam Cohen...
...arranged questions focused on teacher evaluations, the student achievement gap and district budgets...
...addressing matters financial, Segat urged the district to re-evaluate its general tendency to choose the "Cadillac model," citing one new after-school program that cost the same amount of money Boston schools used to finance 19 similar programs...