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...education as the hard- fought battles over school desegregation of the 1950s. A class-action suit was filed in 1975 by a group of students, parents and taxpayers who demanded that all of Mississippi's black colleges receive more money and aid to make up for the decades of neglect. The case has finally made its way to the U.S. Supreme Court, and arguments will be heard next week. It marks the first time the Justices will consider how the widely embraced principles of Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark decision that desegregated public elementary and secondary schools, apply...
...into Betty Hines' living room and nail it to the ceiling. Hines works at the back of the room, straining from the rungs of a ladder as she attaches tiles to the plywood with the aid of one of Derouen's assistants. Heavy rains, excessive groundwater and years of neglect in southern Louisiana's sugarcane region have led to creeping decay in Hines' home. Now, instead of harsh sunshine peeking through rotting walls, daylight filters through brand-new window frames...
...politician, or had won by a smaller margin, there wouldn't be much fuss. But Wofford won big as a liberal and as a new-comer. People rejected the grand Republican machinery. People rejected Bush. With the economy still floundering, and critics becoming very vocal about Bush's neglect of domestic issues, this is not good time for Bush to have to deal with defeat...
...second aspect the narrow-minded analysts seem to neglect is that Gorbachev had no obligation to act the way he did. He could have well continued with the traditional "closed book" Soviet foreign policy of the long Cold War years. Before Gorbachev came to power in 1985, even the most celebrated periodicals on international relations frequently published articles praising how well the Soviets were doing economically. The world knew nothing about the truth since nobody could penetrate into the closed society controlled by the Kremlin's fear-based authority...
...none of this is new. In the past three years, Bush has never had a domestic agenda. The bad news for Bush is that real Americans--not just a handful of Democratic candidates--are beginning to catch on. They're beginning to criticize his neglect of domestic policy. A New York Times/CBS poll released last week shows that Americans are deeply disappointed with Bush's handling of domestic issues. Voters are particularly critical of his failure to bring the economy back to life and solve the national health care crisis...