Word: local
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Such bureaucratic decisions may be best kept at the local level, where officials are better equipped to weigh the complex mix of a community and individual interests. Consider the case of a Jewish student in Gulfport, Miss., who was told he could not wear a Star of David to class. School officials said the star was sometimes used by gangs, and they did not want any such imagery in classes. The case infuriated supporters of the Religious Liberty Protection Act. Once again, however, no federal intervention was required. The local school board decided after more careful consideration to reverse itself...
...last envision an end to the torturous era in which, since 1975, they have been an unwilling part of Indonesia. But as they waited for the votes to be counted, pro-Jakarta militias violently assumed control of much of the western part of the territory. At least four local United Nations employees were murdered, and six more may have died. Scores of citizens were hurt or killed...
...cited stilt houses as historic landmarks and helped renew the 20-year, submerged-land leases for existing houses on state property. That, however, does not cover the 25-year leases for Stiltsville, which is in Biscayne National Park. Their expiration this year fired up the federal wrecking ball--and local protesters, who rallied to save the site. Carl Hiaasen, who has used Stiltsville as a setting in his novels, argues that the houses can be lifesavers. He and his son, he wrote in the Miami Herald, once survived a violent storm by tying their boat to a Stiltsville pile. Hiaasen...
...technology is now in place to change the way films are made, sold and shared. Thanks to computers, digital cameras and the Internet, many independent filmmakers can afford to make, market and distribute their own work. Perhaps the immense pool of film talent that has lurked just beyond our local multiplex movie theaters has a better shot at the big screen now that it's armed with the resources to create a blockbuster of a different flavor. The savvy directors of The Blair Witch Project are pioneers in what is destined to be a new era in film. ADRIEN GLOVER...
...Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, N.C., canceled the Charlotte Film and Video Festival, which featured gay and lesbian films and had long been a target of local conservatives. A spokesman said it was deemed too much trouble for an artistic endeavor it didn't view as "essential...