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...away. Last week, however, federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein overturned the ruling: “The defendants have complied with the 1974 remedial order. Mark Twain has been desegregated. The court has no further jurisdiction in this case.” And rightly so. For the 1974 order no longer served the compelling interest for which it was intended: avoiding racial isolation and equality of opportunity in public schooling. While last week’s federal order suggests a move toward more race-neutral policy, the use of race-conscious admissions policy in public schooling still has its place...
...thoughts emerged after a few hand-crippling hours of playing the game.“Guitar Hero” has become a national sensation, and everyone from first graders to grandparents seem to be crowding into living rooms and showing off their hand-eye coordination on plastic guitars. No longer “just a game,” many “Guitar Hero” players take pride in being better than their friends and make many attempts to add their own flair to their “performance.”When I recently did a YouTube...
Even in Texas, where only a couple of weeks ago Mike Huckabee thought he could rely on the heavy Evangelical presence to give John McCain a real primary fight, the Republican race no longer looks like a serious contest. But while Huckabee may no longer be in a position to sway the outcome of the Republican presidential primary/caucus on Tuesday, he does stand to have a profound impact on another crucial, and potentially more controversial, vote that same...
Sharpened machetes were no longer deadly enough weapons for rural Kenyans during the ethnic warfare that scourged their country following December's flawed election. So they replaced them with poisoned bows and arrows - and an arms industry of sorts has sprung up to produce them...
...Apparitions represent a [necessary] provocation for both theologians and the church," Giuseppe De Carli, whose interview with Bertone is the core of The Last Secret, told TIME. In the book, Bertone seems relieved that all the Virgin's prophecies were now safely in the past tense, and could no longer be seen as portending the world's end: "It's all quite different from the massive carnage certain fevered brains like to imagine taking place," he writes. Then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger must have felt the same. In a "Theological Interpretation" that accompanied the publication of the third secret, he suggested...