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...three decades since the inception of Title IX, single-sex education has been banished almost entirely to private and parochial schools on the grounds that schools segregated by sex, like those segregated by race, cannot be counted upon to be equal. But last week, President George W. Bush announced plans to change its enforcement of Title IX rules in order to allow more single-sex classes and schools in public school districts. And, though we are concerned about lax enforcement of the Bush Administration’s new rules, we are happy to see families who can?...
...Many of those already open have long waiting lists, and the national number of such public schools has more than doubled—to 24—in the last 18 months. Single-sex education also continues to be popular for non-public schools nationwide. The old Title IX regulations, however, only allowed families with the means to send their children to same-sex private schools; everyone else had to put up with a government-enforced notion of political correctness...
...seldom saw a woman of any age whose bathwater he would have declined to drink." His life becomes a struggle to hang on to the norms of civilized behavior. Wrestling with shadows, Xan reels and staggers through some paralyzingly funny satirical subplots involving Henry IX, the baffled and ineffectual king of England; a shameless tabloid hack named Clint Smoker; and Joseph Andrews, a master criminal so hardened he finds himself committing felonies even in his alibis...
...role in helping bring down Polish communism at the same time as ensuring a soft landing. But inside the Church his own rule will be remembered as nothing if not authoritarian. John Paul II reasserted, and even amplified the doctrine of "Papal infallibility," and beatified its author, Pope Pius IX. If Vatican II had opened up a conversation between the Bishops and the Vatican, John Paul II closed down the tradition of "collegiality" among the Bishops - which naturally presupposed and even encouraged a diversity of views - and made clear that he was less interested in hearing from them than...
...violence and becomes a crude, inarticulate jerk. His journey back to goodness pits him against Joseph Andrews, a vicious East End gangster semiretired to the U.S. Meanwhile, the royal family (a new element in Amisland; he has learned what sells) is threatened with blackmail when King Henry IX receives an anonymous screen grab of his 15-year-old daughter in the nude. Across the pond, the Sextown Sniper is terrorizing a California municipality set up under legal loopholes as a haven for the porn industry. Simultaneously, sleazy Clint Smoker, who writes a misogynistic column called Yellow Dog for a Fleet...