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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afraid of the Judgment Day?" Sister Mira Anne Nattoli, clad in traditional Muslim robes, asks her fifth- and sixth-grade English class. Today's text is "The Twins and the Missing Math Paper," but the lesson is as much religion as English. "Whoever cheats," a young man reads carefully, "is not a good student of Islam." The students, about 95% African American, wear loose-fitting shirts and headdresses--skullcaps called kufis for the boys and scarves called khimars for the girls. Cleveland's Islamic School of Oasis is in many ways a typical Muslim day school, but with a twist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A First Report Card On Vouchers | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

Clinton is making the same mistake Lyndon Johnson made in Vietnam in supposing that bombing will force a rational response from an irrational person. Assuming a dictator will act in the best interest of his nation's people is an error of judgment the West keeps making. Milosevic, like Ho Chi Minh, sees the struggles of his countrymen only as the means to achieve an ethnically pure nation. The bait has been taken: NATO and the U.S. are headed down the slippery slope of ever increasing commitment in Yugoslavia. CHARLES GARNER Greensboro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 26, 1999 | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

With only Justice John Paul Stevens dissenting, the 8-1 decision reversed a previous judgment of the Supreme Court of Ohio...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Supreme Ct. May Prohibit Faculty Unionizing | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Ohio's Central State University then challenged this decision. On March 22, the U.S. Supreme Court announced its judgment in the case of Central State University v. American Association of University Professors, Central State University Chapter...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Supreme Ct. May Prohibit Faculty Unionizing | 4/22/1999 | See Source »

Because the summary judgment of the last 30years is that while he was a fascinating andromantic figure, Hemingway was a colossal jerk.He is seen, at best, as ignoring women and atworst as a vicious misogynist; he is cast asanti-Semitic; he is pronounced guilty of writingAfrican-American and native African characters outof his works and of racism when he does includethem. And even when Hemingway is not offendinganybody, he has been labeled infantile. Writerslike Tobias Wolff mark their adulthood at thepoint when they cease to be entranced byHemingway's bravado; and perhaps many--like PeterMathiessen, who smugly pronounced the author...

Author: By Joshua Perry, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Who's Afraid of Mr. Hemingway? | 4/16/1999 | See Source »

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