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So far, the educational results of the New Orleans experiment are mixed. Teachers at Moton and Lockett find that the extra-long year at a minimum gives them a head start on the traditional weeks of review work at the beginning of the new school term. "Come September, I'm...
Quayle is far from the first politician to mine this populist bedrock of antilawyer sentiment. Jimmy Carter attacked the legal profession for providing unequal standards of justice for the rich and the poor. Quayle's emphasis was not justice but competitiveness. By framing the debate in these terms, he raised...
Did Quayle Offer the Right Remedies? Some of the Vice President's proposals, such as a societal emphasis on mediation over litigation, can be embraced by everyone other than the most self-protective attorney. Others are intriguing, such as his advocacy of the English system, in which the loser in...
For Shamir, the agreement to attend the conference required only a slight shift in emphasis: he simply said yes, Israel would sit down at the peace parley provided the Palestinian delegation was acceptable, rather than no, it would not attend if the Palestinian group was not acceptable. Beyond that, the...
These days, perhaps only a masochist can fully enjoy the job of a university president. One of Kennedy's most far-reaching achievements -- broadening the content of the required Western Culture courses to be more inclusive of women and minority writers -- became a lightning rod for conservative attacks. Stanford faces...