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Sandra Day O’Connor’s resignation from the Supreme Court last week set off a buzz in Washington that has focused the nation??s attention on a handful of possible successors—an elite club of jurists that includes two Harvard alums...
Later in the day, the Department of Homeland Security raised the threat level for the nation??s transit systems to code orange, which is the second highest level of alert. Although officials had received no specific threats against U.S. cities, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said that he remained “concerned about the possibility of a copycat attack...
...transition from cutesy childhood to pubescent gawk is uncomfortable enough for us non-famous people. The social warfare of “Mean Girls,” meanwhile, looks positively pleasant compared to how it must have felt when the nation??s tabloids had the poor taste (and/or ignorance of basic adolescent development) to leer at teenaged Lohan’s swelling bosom and ask if they spied the work of a surgeon. In between publicly scrutinizing the changing shape of her body, they chronicled the ins and outs of her relationship with sitcom ham Wilmer Valderrama...
...government’s six-year-old lawsuit charges the nation??s six largest tobacco companies with having conspired over the past 50 years to deceive the public about the dangers and addictiveness of smoking...
...existent among black students in primarily black schools, as well as among black students attending private schools. Fryer noted that other factors—such as under-funding, differences in teaching quality, and disparities in parent-teacher interaction—probably explain the differences in overall performance among the nation??s schools...