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...focus. But Woodrow is worried the curriculum also encourages teachers to discuss such practices as transcendental meditation. He cites a 1979 New Jersey case in which teaching transcendental meditation in public schools was found to violate the First Amendment. While its attorney reviews the yoga program, the Aspen School District is striking terms like mantra and considering making the lessons optional. "Some of the parents' concerns were legitimate," concedes superintendent Tom Farrell. One thing yoga teaches is how to be flexible...
...MUSIC BOX It seems an unlikely place to find a jazz club, but Vinaigrette, on the top floor of the Howard Johnson AlQasr Hotel, tel: (962) 6568 9671, in the Shmeisani district of Amman, is where people in the know meet for late-night drinks and Arab fusion music. The glass walls of the bar offer spectacular night views over the capital; in the summer the open terrace is a great place to catch a cool breeze away from the traffic noise and pollution of town. The room is dark and intimate, and the tables small; each is graced with...
...Ehrlich's campaign, too, has had its troubles. Though he portrays himself as a moderate (he has been elected four times in a largely Democratic congressional district), his stated willingness to re-examine Maryland's tough gun-control laws could hurt him in Washington's key liberal suburbs. The race is certain to get uglier. "We're ready for it," Ehrlich says. In other words, Toto, we're not in Camelot anymore...
Most congressional races are mismatches. Incumbents tend to have bank accounts and name recognition that few challengers can match. But once a decade or so, redistricting forces a pair of incumbents into the same district to fight for one seat. That's what is happening in Connecticut, where two heavyweight pols are locked in the fight of their careers. Come November, one will suddenly be bumped from power...
...southern city of Kandahar the only clue to those behind the failed assassination was the dead gunman. Not much was known about him, except that he was a soldier, recruited into the government's ranks only weeks earlier and that he came from the vehemently pro-Taliban district of Kajaki, in neighboring Helmand province. Like thousands of others absorbed into military units or government positions in Kandahar since the fall of the Taliban regime in December, Rehman was not screened for Taliban or terrorist links. "That's what these people are doing, coming into the government through village connections...