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...found the state's funding system unconstitutional. Since then, courts have thrown out school-financing systems in 13 other states. Some, like New Jersey, remain perpetually mired, unable to arrive at a new formula, but most have begun emphasizing the notion of "adequacy," making sure each student receives a minimum spending level but allowing towns to collect extra funds for their own use. Vermont's supreme court, however, standing on the landmark 1954 Brown v. Topeka Board of Education decision, ruled that the state had to go another step toward equity by creating a statewide property tax (Kansas...
Stein, 73, is a former special prosecutor whose 1984 investigation of Ed Meese, then Ronald Reagan's Attorney General-designate, was wrapped up, in contrast to Starr's, with a minimum of time and expense. As for Cacheris, 68, during the Iran-contra scandal he got immunity for Oliver North's secretary, Fawn Hall. He also got CIA spy Aldrich Ames spared from the death penalty...
...Battle-strategy games behave like Warcraft. Flight simulators tend to resemble Microsoft's. To be sure, this year's new games are faster, smoother and compatible with accelerator cards that deliver superior 3-D effects. They also tend to require Olympian amounts of RAM. SimCity 3000, will need a minimum of 32 MB, though the payoff is splendidly rendered, 3-D, skyscraper-bejeweled cities that one can zoom in on, right down to the level of joggers on the sidewalks, and redesign like God or even Mayor Rudy Giuliani...
...December 1968, Bunting-Smith was forced tofly back from a conference in North Carolina tomeet with black student protesters who weredemanding minimum quotas for the admission ofblack students into future Radcliffe classes. By1969, chaos reigned at Harvard and an abbreviatedsit-in took place in the Radcliffe president'soffice.F-19BUNTING-SMITHCrimson File Photo...
...years, Clinton and her two younger brothers, Hugh and Tony, faithfully attended Sunday school at the local Methodist church. Family dinners were a daily occurrence; time spent watching television after the Rodhams purchased their first set in 1951 was kept to a minimum...