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...hair." Germany has been grappling with these issues for more than a decade. In 1995, its Constitutional Court prohibited overwhelmingly Catholic Bavaria from applying a state law requiring that crucifixes be hung in classrooms. (The verdict has since been skirted by a Bavarian regulation allowing crosses, unless parents object.) In 1998, a young Muslim teacher named Fereshta Ludin applied for a job in Plüderhausen in Baden-Württemberg, but was rejected because she insisted on keeping her head veiled in the classroom. She sued the Stuttgart school authority, and after years of legal wrangling won her case...
...essence of meditation is nowness ... [it] is not aimed at achieving a higher state or at following some theory or idea, but simply, without any object or ambition, trying to see what is here...
Which isn't a bad thing if you want to encourage students to read great books (though some may object to a private group like the College Board deciding which books). But now you're measuring not just reading ability but also the achievement of having plowed through As I Lay Dying. At ETS, measuring anything beyond developed ability used to be considered noise that disrupted the clear sound of a score. Psychometricians try to screen out all kinds of noise--questions that ask about subways, for instance, could be excluded because rural kids may not be familiar with them...
...have any further information to release at this time." Diana Phillips, senior vice president at Sotheby's, says, "We have not knowingly sold any items consigned by Mr. Ghia or companies affiliated with him for the past several years." Sotheby's, says Phillips, does not offer for sale "any object that we know or suspect is stolen, smuggled or looted...
...House, but Bush has exceeded all presidential precedents of subterfuge. Never before has a White House been so crass about doling out the spoils of war to its corporate cronies—Halliburton, Bechtel et al—while using the afterglow of victory to cow those who might object. The same administration that used patriotism as a gag on dissent is responsible for a treasonous leak that, if it had happened under a Democrat’s watch, would have Republicans calling for capital punishment for the perpetrators...