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...written by the victors. This was never more true than on March 12, when the Texas board of education voted 10-5 in favor of curriculum standards that would promote conservative takes on controversial issues in the pages of the state's textbooks. The changes, expected to win final approval in May, include an increased emphasis on and sympathetic treatment of such Republican touchstones as the National Rifle Association and the Moral Majority. They also tout the superiority of capitalism and the role of Christianity in the nation's founding. Even Thomas Jefferson's profile will be diminished; some board...
...Phelps has accepted his final assignment. Graves, best known as the implacable leader of TV's Mission: Impossible team from 1967 to '73, died March 14 at 83. Thus ended a 60-year career in which his flinty features, suitable for carving on Mount Rushmore, and his sonorous baritone made him one of the small screen's leading authority figures--an eminence he occasionally subverted in irreverent comedies like Airplane! and Men in Black...
This was especially true late in both games, when Harvard’s clutch hitting and relief pitching became crucial to secure victories in the final innings...
...Neill, Franklin, and Reynolds combined efforts at bat to break the tie and give the Crimson a two-run lead in the top of the seventh inning. Novak struck out Hartford’s first two batters, and Franklin got under a pop-up to left field for the final out to secure the victory...
...Jerusalem is just one of a number of difficult "final status" issues to be negotiated in pursuit of a two-state solution - others include where to draw the borders; the fate of settlers and of Palestinian refugees who fled their homes in Israel in 1948 and were barred from returning; security; and water rights. But the fate of the Holy City is easily the most emotive, and perhaps also the most intractable point of conflict. And the very process of trying to restart final-status talks has once again put Jerusalem at ground zero in the conflict. (See pictures...