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...flurry of critics have decried the plan as a rushed and heavy-handed stunt that will crush Aboriginal autonomy. Aboriginal academic Boni Robertson has been waiting for action on child abuse since she authored a major report in 1999 detailing crimes against Aboriginal women and children in Queensland. But she fears that applying punitive welfare measures to everyone will imply all Aborigines are "irresponsible monsters, when there are many parents who are doing the right thing." She warns too that, without extensive rehabilitation services, banning alcohol will only shift the problem elsewhere. As in the N.T., many communities...
...With sparse information regarding the benefits of a tunnel, its construction remains a psychological mystery. The plan carries a tone of a challenging exercise in engineering prowess, but research into the economic, political, and social advantage is an exercise that needs honing. Set to operate in the year 2025, it’s doubtful that the years between will foment any fanfare, but the real test will be whether the tunnel’s success outlives the fanfare or lack thereof...
...Harvard, where free food is the social lubricant of choice and cracklin’ oat bran is more plentiful than North Face jackets, it’s virtually impossible to keep from being full. The meal plan ensures—or, more accurately, mandates—that we always have food on our plates. Like twelve-year-olds at summer camp, we may not relish what the dining hall is serving up, but we never have to ponder when—or how—we’ll get our next meal...
...vote, the court struck down the districts' plans. Three justices joined Chief Justice John Roberts' opinion saying that, in schools not intentionally segregated, the desire for racial balance isn't enough to trump the Constitution's general ban on treating people differently because of their race. Justice Anthony "Swing Vote" Kennedy agreed with the striking-down bit, but he wrote a separate opinion saying schools could consider race as a factor if they did so in ways precisely gauged to achieve diversity. The districts' plans were too crude - Seattle had only two categories: white and non-white - and too ambiguous...
...parents who successfully challenged the Seattle plan favored a pure choice approach, with a lottery to handle assignments at oversubscribed schools. They say Seattle's high schools are already racially diverse (Chief Justice Roberts seems to agree), and that the city's overall diversity will keep them that way. "Sixty percent of students are minority, and 80 percent of them want to go to the top five schools," says the parents' lawyer, Harry Korrell. "So you're going to get a heavy minority representation no matter what." The district, though, argues that segregation in the city's neighborhoods will soon...