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...despite this year's rise, the scores remain slightly below state norms. Thirty-seven percent of third-graders statewide are "proficient" readers and 31 percent rank "advanced"; Cambridge, by comparison, has 31 percent and 28 percent of students in the respective categories...
...doors open to a Carlinized cyberspace that had the Judiciary members up in arms Wednesday. It may have been a nifty business ploy ?- if Network Solutions can keep its competitors busy registering the ----.coms and the &%$#!%.coms, its monopoly on addresses in the more respectable cyberhoods just might remain intact. The company did run the plan by the Commerce Department ?- which shrugged and pointed to the First Amendment ?- but this is just the kind of cover-the-children?s-eyes issue that congressmen love. Or at least argue about...
...Defense, we stop buying at some point. Like now. After years of acceleration, sales of sport-utility vehicles, or SUVs, are slowing--and the turn surely signals tougher times ahead for U.S. carmakers. How soon? That's the key question. Overall, car sales are strong, and SUV sales remain fairly brisk. Just last week Ford reported record quarterly earnings (adjusted for one-time events...
...subtitle of your story that referred to me, "Why a defender of affirmative action is quitting," was misleading [DIVIDING LINE, July 5]. I remain committed to affirmative action because it works; it's fair and vitally necessary if we are to live up to the American ideal of giving every person a fair chance. I was proud to serve as executive director of Americans for a Fair Chance. My departure should not be construed in any way as a change of heart in my steadfast commitment to carry on the fight. Also, it is important to note that anti-affirmative...
DIED. CLARENCE L. HARRIS, 94, lunch manager who in 1960 let four black students remain seated at Woolworth's whites-only counter; in Greensboro, N.C. Harris did not serve the protesters, but his insistence that police not be called helped energize the sit-in, which after six months (and hundreds of demonstrators) succeeded in integrating the counter. The action sparked similar tests across the South...