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...child under protective custody. Nurses at Coral Springs Medical Center began noticing as early as 1991--when Jennifer was just four--that her condition seemed to worsen whenever her mother visited. A formal complaint was filed, and the hospital had her records reviewed by Dr. Eli Newberger, a Munchausen expert at Boston's Children's Hospital. His conclusion: this was a clear case of Munchausen...
...Asian and Native American. In the Northeast, the country's most segregated region, half of all black students attend such schools. "We have already seen the maximum amount of racial mixing in public schools that will exist in our lifetime," says University of Indiana law professor Kevin Brown, an expert on race and education. The combination of legal revisionism and residential segregation is effectively ending America's bold attempt to integrate the public schools...
...neighborhood schools back in 1986, for the stated purpose of increasing parental involvement and arresting white flight. Black parents had sued to block the new plan because it would immediately render 10 elementary schools, many of them serving housing projects, 100% black. Sociologist David Armor, retained as an expert witness by the school board, predicted that if Norfolk's crosstown busing continued, the whole school system would soon become 75% black, making racial balance impossible. "Civil rights groups have always discounted the importance of whites," he says today, "which has always been a mystery to me. It's as though...
...Harvard Law School renamed a wing of one of its buildings in honor of the late Langdell Professor of Law Phillip E. Areeda '51, who was considered the nation's foremost expert on antitrust...
...dollars. The men say they were simply panhandling, but Goetz testified that he feared he was about to be robbed. Jurors decided that Goetz was excessive and not reasonable in his response to the four young black men. Swirling beneath the decision were comments made by Goetz, an electronics expert, before and since the shootings. He told a community meeting in 1980 that he was concerned about "spics and niggers" in the area, and has said that he wanted to kill all four of the youths. The tactics of defense lawyer Darnay Hoffman were a notable failure -->