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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court stood firmly behind education as one of the pillars of our society: "Education is perhaps the most important function of state and local governments...In these days it is doubtful that any child may reasonably be expected to succeed in life if he or she is denied the opportunity of an education...
...controversial display opened this week, after years of local arguments over how, if at all, the site should be preserved. A private nonprofit foundation raised $1.3 million to create the museum, and Dallas County, which owns the building, built a reception area with a $2.2 million bond issue. The Kennedy family, which was known to oppose the project, was not consulted on the plans...
Here it is, folks: the movie that hates its own audience. In mall-town America, a modest queue forms at the local Googolplex to see a new comedy starring Tom Hanks, exemplary nice guy. This time, the overgrown kid from Big is playing Ray Peterson, an amiable businessman whose idea of an O.K. vacation is to hang around his pleasant home in numbingly normal Hinckley Hills and be lazy. Let his wife (Carrie Fisher) and son go to their lakeside cottage; he'll just veg out, watch TV and keep an eye on those . . . well, darned odd neighbors who recently...
...Iranian news agency initially observed that the "Muslim heretic" had not repented. Later it said the apology might be accepted, and still later it dismissed the previous comment as the personal opinion of one of its employees. At the same time, the news agency reported that a local newspaper had denounced the offer of money to anyone who would kill Rushdie, observing that "to pay one man to kill another man is murder at a premium and not a religiously inspired act." This remarkable display of vacillation, played out in the dispatches from Tehran, suggested that pragmatists in Iran...
...sister of a Leverett House sophomore, Stossel might have known she would attend Harvard more than others. Growing up as a "local" in nearby Belmont, she attends a private girls' school and can easily recall visits to the Cambridge campus...