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...great fortune of eating at Trishna, tel: (91-22) 2270 3213, the one restaurant in India that had made Apple's list. It's located in one of the side streets in Kala Ghoda, a vibrant sliver of private art galleries, museums and restaurants in the city's Fort district. Don't be put off by the street-level façade, which was wooden until recently but is now, because of decay, being concreted over...
Education. Teachers are always in demand, especially in cities. If you have a college degree in any field, you can probably get into a program that will let you start as a substitute almost immediately. Check at the school or district office...
...parents thought the dress code more than just ridiculous: they considered it unconstitutional. In March they and a dozen other Redwood parents and students sued the school and the Napa Valley Unified School District in state court. They claim the students have a fundamental right to express themselves through their attire--to speak, in effect, through the kind of clothes that Scott insisted on wearing that first day of school: a denim skirt and socks depicting Tigger, a character from Winnie-the-Pooh...
...well as on the streets. But students also attracted attention from public-interest lawyers who believed that stronger rights of expression would allow children to get a better education. Their first big victory came in 1969 with the black-armband case, called Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District. In a 7-to-2 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that students don't "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech ... at the schoolhouse gate" as long as they don't cause "substantial disruption" at school. Courts gave students even more rights over the next decade, but the rise...
...want to die" and "I hate life." School officials recommended a visit to a psychiatrist, but Demers refused, so they suspended him for the rest of the school year. He sued, claiming the punishment violated his First Amendment right to express himself through his drawing. In 2003 a federal district court ruled against him, saying Demers should have known his drawing and note were "true threats...