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...members, says Mark Potok, director of the intelligence project at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks such organizations. But the leaders of several other major groups--like the National Alliance and Aryan Nations--have either died or been arrested in recent years. In the confusion, less formal splinter groups and rabid online communities have formed. Stormfront, the first major white-supremacy site, was created in 1995 and now claims to have 45,600 members. Rough estimates put the total number of members of white-supremacist groups in the U.S. at about 100,000. Many more are unaffiliated--which doesn...
...have an idea of a garden. It is the place where we wish we were, where we are at our best: generous, fertile, humble and at peace. For some the vision may be exquisitely formal, a garden of thought and geometry, traced with tulips and a perfectly taut hedge. For others it is wild and artless, with shaggy trees and hiding places and children splashing in clover. Even if we have never been there, we know what it looks like. Maybe it is the change of season, or something in the social climate, but suddenly it seems as though...
...women to allow them to be." Coincidental to the government's plans for family law reform, the Family Court recently took steps toward self-improvement. Launched in two Sydney registries a year ago, the pilot Children's Cases Program aims to make cases quicker, cheaper, less formal and less acrimonious. Speed is achieved by skirting the rules of evidence: there's little scope for legal objection or technical argument. Litigants make an opening statement, directly addressing the judge, who - perhaps eschewing the wig and robe - keeps things moving with a word of advice here, a cautionary tale there. "The (eight...
...None of this precludes what colleagues may wish to discuss at formal faculty meetings, but I hope that these sessions can provide additional venues for dialogue,” he wrote...
...that point, every professor, regardless of his age, is equally accountable to his students.CORRECTION: Due to reporting errors, the March 3 magazine profile of English professor Leland de la Durantaye included several factual inaccuracies. First, De la Durantaye contributed articles to The Village Voice but did not hold a formal job with the newspaper, as the article implied. Second, De la Durantaye's family moved to what is today Michigan in the 17th century but did not live there in the 1500s. Third, De la Durantaye was not named after a soldier who guarded a French supply of arms...