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...host of the Today show, Matt Lauer comfortably occupied the seat next to the most popular anchor in morning news. But with Katie Couric gone to CBS--and Meredith Vieira still settling in as co-host--senior anchor Lauer is now more responsible for keeping Today on top. Lauer, 49, talked with TIME's Jeanne McDowell about his 10 years on Today, his chemistry with Vieira and his memorable face-off with Tom Cruise...
Learn the names of all the rivers in South America. That was the assignment given to Deborah Stipek's daughter Meredith in school, and her mom, who's dean of the Stanford University School of Education, was not impressed. "That's silly," Stipek told her daughter. "Tell your teacher that if you need to know anything besides the Amazon, you can look it up on Google." Any number of old-school assignments--memorizing the battles of the Civil War or the periodic table of the elements--now seem faintly absurd. That kind of information, which is poorly retained unless...
...Gordon began his argument by saying that all his plaintiff, Crystal Meredith, wanted to do was walk her son around the block to kindergarten. But Justice Ginsburg quickly interrupted with a question that suggested this entire case might not have been necessary: Why had Meredith waited until August, four months after the March deadline, to submit her choice of school? "I think she was living in Florida," Gordon said. The lawyer representing the school district did not challenge Meredith's standing to represent all parents of Jefferson County students. Instead, he used Meredith to counter the Solicitor General's claim...
...court’s decision in the two cases—Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District and Meredith v. Jefferson County Board of Education—may overturn its landmark 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education...
Whatever the merits of Meredith's case, even her supporters can admit she is hardly the ideal plaintiff. She didn't attempt to sign her son up for kindergarten until August, despite numerous radio and TV announcements and signs posted in day-care centers and Laundromats reminding parents to apply for their choice of school by March. By the time Meredith (who declined to be interviewed for this article) did apply, most of the seats had been allocated. Cheryl Wirth, a waitress at Waffle House whose son attends a magnet school, thinks this alone ought to be enough to dispose...