Word: failed
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DIED. John Holt, 62, author and onetime fifth-grade teacher whose eloquent, anguished 1964 journal about his years in the classroom, How Children Fail, sparked a spirited national debate on the quality of the nation's schools, to which he continued to contribute with several other books, including How Children Learn (1967); of cancer; in Boston...
...sale and distribution of some sexually explicit materials illegal. In effect, it would amount to indiscriminate censorship. A clear definition of pornography is difficult, at best, and violations of First Amendment guarantees are almost inevitable under such restrictions. If the proposed referendum had been approved, it would most likely fail judicial review...
What some city councilors fail to realize is that no matter how flawed an initiative petition may seem, direct ballot access for ordinary citizens must be preserved. Only the courts can decide whether a law is constitutional...
...China's success stories remain largely rural: almost all the rich wanyuanhu (literally "10,000-yuan households"--roughly $3,510) are in the countryside, as are nine out of ten private enterprises. "Yet without the urban reforms," says a Western diplomat, "the rest of Deng's program will eventually fail...
These stories are more than ten years old, but in Lukas' hands they still have the power to move. No reader, no matter what his political or social views, can fail to be affected by the Irish Catholic family, declining into an acrimony that leaves all of its members diminished; by the black family, breaking up in despair; or by the white liberals, who in the end give up on the South End, retreating to a Victorian house in the suburbs...