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...exaggerate the impulse to purchase expensive or trendy clothing. In many schools, the pressure to wear the “right” clothes and brands reinforces socioeconomic inequalities among students and permits implicit fashion requirements for friendship. On a more concrete level, requiring uniforms will prevent students wearing gang-related clothing and accessories—a serious problem in Hartford schools—from infecting the classroom learning environment. Freedom of expression may be an important part of our social fabric, but when graduation and proficiency rates are plummeting, fostering academic proficiency must be priority. While uniforms...
...Boehner himself was once a bomb thrower, the only remaining member of the Gang of Seven - a band of young conservative members who delighted in harassing the Democratic majority in the early 1990s. But in recent years, he's become more of a moderate, elected to lead his conference on a platform of bipartisanship. As the top Republican on the Education and Workforce Committee, he worked with Democrats to pass No Child Left Behind and the Pension Protection...
...amazing what they got away with, though. I don't know if you ever saw Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, that animated show. The premise was that the Fonz and Richie and Ralph and Potsie - all of whom did their own voices, amazingly - had a time machine, and each week they would travel to a different time. Never mind that the f______ thing is already set in the '50s. It just made no sense...
...Hill, arguing he had given them a voice after they had been all but ignored in the horsetrading earlier in the week. "McCain came into town and the message there that House Republicans are relevant, we're not going to roll the House Republicans, we're not going to gang up in House Republicans," said Spencer Bachus, a representative from Alabama who has been involved in some of the negotiations. Bachus said he told McCain on the phone earlier in the week that "we were getting steamrolled," and asked for his help. "I told him at that time that...
...court's decision comes as Rome's gay community says it faces increased discrimination from public officials and heightened violence from local homophobic thugs. Earlier this month, two 28-year-old men who'd been holding hands were beaten by a gang shouting "Faggots Get Out of Italy." This and other attacks, including a fire in February set at the "Coming Out" gay club, have occurred in the neighborhood near the Coliseum. The road in front of the ancient monument, via San Giovanni in Laterano, has been dubbed Gay Street for the prevalence of gay clubs and bars situated there...