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...citizen until her mid-30s has suddenly been elevated to head of the Congress Party and leading candidate for Prime Minister. Yet Sonia Gandhi is not even a member of Parliament. Her chief qualification? Choice of spouse. Her late husband was Rajiv Gandhi, slain Prime Minister, himself the most recent example of India's experiment in monarchical rule within a democratic shell. The line is almost unbroken. The first Prime Minister (Nehru) begat a Prime Minister (daughter Indira) who begat another (son Rajiv). His children being too young to reign, India's Congress Party is proposing what in the Middle...
...Bruce Vilanch is neither. He is a comedy writer. His name can't be found on film scripts or Broadway marquees or even as Executive Associate Creative Consultant on a UPN sitcom. Yet he is the unseen perp of some of the funniest, most famous or notorious moments in recent show-biz history...
...recent fossil discoveries that supposedly document human evolution are mere opinions. Evolution has never been proved. It is a theory that is on shaky ground. ANDREW DIPROSE Rome...
...Livonia, N.Y., and Katie Harwood, 22, of Logan, Utah, a hospital accounting clerk, don't go to college at all. Nor are all home-schooling parents Bible-thumping Christians teaching their kids at apron-string length to protect them from sex, drugs and Darwin. In the gruesome wake of recent school shootings, a new cadre of parents are wondering whether home schooling is the best way to shield their kids from bullets. Ben's and Rebecca's parents did keep them close in a highly structured setting, mostly to instill Christian values. These families are from the right wing...
...most recent research, published last March, backs up previous studies that came to favorable conclusions. Funded by the Home School Legal Defense Association but conducted by Lawrence M. Rudner, a respected independent statistician, the study found that 20,760 K-12 home-schooled students had median scores typically in the 70th to 80th percentile. But the sample, like previous ones, was overwhelmingly white, Christian, educated and affluent--and not comparable to a control group of public school children. "Given the education level and affluence of the parents," observes Gerald Bracey, an educational analyst in Alexandria, Va., "you could say, 'Gosh...