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...argument most often used against abstinence-only programs is that they are a thinly disguised effort to impose fundamentalist religious values on public-school students and thus violate the constitutional separation of church and state. Some of the texts started out as religious documents and were rewritten to replace references to God and Jesus with nonsectarian words like goodness and decency. Still, it makes little sense to criticize the programs simply because they originate from a religious perspective; what matters is not where the courses came from but what they...
...what was scheduled to be the council's last meeting of the year, the council considered a rewritten version of the constitution offered by the ad-hoc reevaluation committee...
...powerful testimony that early migrations did take place. However the first immigrants got to the New World, and whatever the reason why they left behind so little physical evidence, it has become difficult to deny their existence -- and increasingly likely that earliest American history will have to be rewritten...
Last year, the CCSR voted against a similar measure, citing problems with the wording of the policy. The policy was rewritten last spring...
...sexual revelation is a dramatic stunt: Agatha Christie rewritten by Quentin Crisp. But the twist is also brilliant because it makes the relationship riper, the characters deeper. Flying in the face of every convention, the love story soars. Jordan calls his movie "a love story without sex, beyond sex. You think that love is the same thing as sex -- and it's not, is it?" Because they never do have sex, the lovers can hold on to their ideal images of each other as savior and beautiful woman. "It's my little joke about a marriage," Jordan says. "The ideal...