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That the bong-hits case, known officially as Morse v. Frederick, has come before the court is a sign of the times. An unprecedented wave of similar suits has clogged the lower courts in recent years, propelled, say legal experts, by several developments: stricter rules in the aftermath of gang violence and school shootings, a crackdown on alarming Internet comments and a perceived hostility toward religion in public schools...
Just as schools were beginning to solve the gang problem, a scarier threat emerged: mass killings like the April 1999 massacre at Columbine High School near Littleton, Colo. Some teachers and principals began to see potential threats behind all kinds of behavior, provoking free-speech disputes that often landed in court. In 2000 a teacher at Northwest School in Leominster, Mass., kicked Michael Demers, 15, out of class for talking. Another teacher asked Demers how he felt about the ejection, and Demers drew two pictures: one of explosives surrounding the school and another of a gun pointed at the superintendent...
...Combo admits as much himself when he attempts to befriend the only black member of Woody's gang - the cheekily named Milky - reminiscing about how, when he joined the "original" skinheads back in the late 1960s, they all stood proud under the banner of racial unity. When Milky begins to talk about his extended family, Combo's eyes well-up. Half-ashamed, half-envious of what he misses most, Combo is poised on a knife-edge before the film turns toward its hideous, and inevitable, climax...
...eight Democratic presidential candidates to raise their hands if there "is such thing as a global war on terror." Clinton and Obama raised their hands. John Edwards was among those who did not. "This political language has created a frame that is not accurate and that Bush and his gang have used to justify anything they want to do," Edwards tells TIME. The White House, for its part, insists President Bush isn't changing his policy--or his vocabulary...
Like Schwarzenegger, Crist wasn't always known as an ideological moderate. As a state senator in the 1990s, he was called "Chain Gang Charlie" for co-sponsoring a law that revived prison labor in leg irons. But Crist says his hard line on criminals is simply part of what also drove him to renew ex-convicts' voter rights. Instead of ideology, "fundamental fairness was always spoken about in our home," says Crist, 50, sitting in shirtsleeves in his office, beneath a painting of his Greek immigrant grandfather when he was a shoe-shine boy. He speaks daily on the phone...