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Meanwhile, Roberts and Breyer churned out the lion's share of the verbiage, writing for and against the court's ruling. Each strove to wrap the case in the lustrous legacy of Brown. "Before Brown," Roberts intoned, "schoolchildren were told where they could and could not go to school based on the color of their skin," and now these schools are doing the same. Not true, countered Breyer. Indeed, "to invalidate" those policies "is to threaten the promise of Brown," he warned...
...puddled with blood, the thin dormitory walls perforated with holes from rubber bullets. The raids enrage the people. The lives of Burmese Buddhists are intertwined with the lives of the monks. Monks preside over marriages, chant over the dead; they shelter orphans, care for HIV patients and help schoolchildren cram for their exams. A devout Buddhist will not even step on the shadow of a monk. With soldiers and police still inside Ngwe Kyar Yan, hundreds of local people surround it. "We had no weapons," a neighbor tells me. "Everyone just wanted to protect the monks." Eventually, with night approaching...
...Sometime in the 22nd century (if we get there as a species), schoolchildren in a new dark age will read about all the sirens going off at the same time - "ice melting, species vanishing and cities choking the people who live in them" - and no one in power ever giving these life-or-death matters the full, single-minded attention they so desperately deserved. Carlos A. Leo Hollywood...
Sometime in the 22nd century (if we get there as a species), schoolchildren in a new dark age will read about all the sirens going off at the same time--"ice melting, species vanishing and cities choking the people who live in them"--and no one in power giving these life-or-death matters the full attention they deserved...
...schoolchildren, the first day of summer arrives with agonizing tardiness, and the last with frantic haste; those bordered out by these two are filled with erratic dalliances. There may be haphazard tree forts one week and trips to the waterslides the next, or there may be sandcastles first and then bumper cars. There may be nothing but hours of television. The common theme is the pointlessness of it all—the unequalled luxury of gorging on endless unclaimed hours...