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CHOICE WITHIN public school systems is not necessarily harmful. In choosing a school, parents become active participants in their children's education. If choice programs prompt schools to make serious improvements, students will be better...
...cautioned that the study was not detailed enough to prove outright discrimination. But the overall pattern was consistent enough to prompt several Washington lawmakers to call for new antidiscrimination bills...
...deposits. If the exploratory pipe hits crude, it will enrich a cast of investors that includes the Bass brothers of Texas, the Rupert family of South Africa, the Harvard University endowment fund and George W. Bush, the President's eldest son. If the well is dry, the episode will prompt shareholders to wonder why they ever put faith in a Texas-size enigma called Harken Energy Corp...
Just as the Ginsberg hearings left people with high ambitions scared about smoking pot, the Thomas hearings this week will likely prompt a few lawyers and judges to consult their books and think before they speak. It has become clear that too many lawyers do not know what constitutes sexual harassment under...
...Thomas is a near-total political creation, and the Senate should reject him. Not because he's a conservative, as the liberal interest groups hope, but because he's not as qualified as he should be. Obviously his rejection wouldn't prompt Bush to name a moderate. But maybe he would pick someone with more experience...