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Following a pattern of bruising defeats, civil rights advocates have become increasingly distrustful of the Bush Administration and the Supreme Court. But last week, topping a series of important decisions, the high court surprised some of its toughest critics by giving a major boost to racial integration. By a 5-4 vote, the court ruled that a federal judge can order school officials to raise taxes to pay for desegregation remedies. Furthermore, said the court, the judge can instruct officials to ignore state laws limiting the amount of school taxes...
Pulliam gave the readiest daily sign of his competitiveness on the golf course. He learned in Lebanon how to talk with the city establishment on the links, and he set a Quayle family pattern of buying homes that overlook the fairways. He liked year-round golfing, so he left Lebanon in the winter, first for Florida, then for Phoenix. He was an advocate of improvement, tourism and more golf courses for Phoenix long before he bought his paper there. The Phoenix course on which Quayle learned to play is nestled among a dozen or so clubs, their bright green carpets...
Earth Day fits into a troubling American pattern of responding to crises with rhetoric and theater. So far, it has been easy to be an environmentalist: one simply has to claim to be one. Just as middle-class voters routinely condemn "welfare" while opposing cuts in the social programs that constitute such spending, a good portion of the voters who claim they would pay for environmental improvements balk when the bill is presented. If consumers truly insisted on cleaner air in their individual buying and voting decisions, Detroit and Japan would vie to deliver less polluting cars, and it would...
...concrete and holds some 60,000 tons of hardware, including nearly 5,000 electromagnets, four particle detectors weighing more than 3,000 tons each, 160 computers and 6,600 km (4,000 miles) of electrical cables. Tangles of brightly colored wires sprout everywhere, linking equipment together in a pattern so complicated, it seems that no one could possibly understand or operate the device. In fact, it takes the combined efforts of literally hundreds of Ph.D.s to run a single experiment...
Some administrators see a cyclical pattern in the movement to rein in fraternities and sororities. "There is a need for college presidents to get hold of their institutions again," says Dale Nitzschke, president of Marshall University. "The pendulum in the '60s and '70s was swinging away from in loco parentis. Now we're moving more to the middle." Many of today's students actually seem to yearn for a firmer hand. Says Samantha Gladish, 21, president of the Panhellenic Council at Bucknell: "We need someone to guide and help...