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...Newton and Beverly school systems have also decided to delay implementing student-led prayer, despite the Massachusetts Education Department's advice to presume the new procedure is valid until the courts rule otherwise...
...Newton School Committee voted last Monday 7-2 to delay compliance until the law is constitutionally solved...
...critics, Norma and Mel Gabler, and their followers [Dec. 31] believe that by censoring certain words out of dictionaries, the things the words represent will cease to exist. It's a shame that they don't object to the words bigotry, starvation and war. Samuel S. Roseman Newton...
...electorate. Because a greater degree of understanding of candidates and issues is needed to cast a primary ballot, those who vote tend to be articulate, highly motivated, upper middle income citizens, who are usually more ideologically committed, whether to the right or to the left. Writes Chicago Lawyer Newton Minow, former chairman of the FCC: "The current version of primaries turns the decision over to what, in a sense, is a new kind of political boss. A small handful of party activists dominate the primaries. The result is a process that tends to fragment rather than unify and to confuse...
...sound consists of vibrations, Marc and Lisa play with a toy telephone made by stretching a string between two tin cans. Then the scene shifts to two cartoon characters who joke about dialing wrong numbers. To introduce gravity, 3-2-1 Contact skips the traditional account of Sir Isaac Newton and the falling apple and shows a Hollywood stunt man plummeting from a four-story building; sensibly, Marc refuses to follow...