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...Florida's Lake County district, crucial school-board decisions about construction projects were held up while a Christian-right majority formulated, then adopted, an "America First" policy instructing teachers to promote American values as "superior to other foreign or historic cultures." The policy struck many people in the predominantly white, Baptist county as offensive. School-board meetings that had once attracted just dozens now drew hundreds of adults, itching to trade insults. As the rancor deepened, voters seeking to defuse the ideological tension formed a committee that screened candidates and raised money. "It was a joint effort by parents, teachers...
Spin doctors in Washington and Tokyo to the contrary, the eleventh-hour deal is more of a truce than a real peace. To be sure, the pact left both sides momentarily ebullient. In Tokyo an official of the Ministry of International Trade and Industry reported after the deal was struck, "They're so happy that they're giddy over there" -- over there meaning in the office of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama. And by transatlantic telephone Bill Clinton told U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor, "Hey, Mick, congratulations. It sounds like you did great." It may not have been a cigar...
Among last week's decisions, it was Miller v. Johnson, in which the court struck down a Georgia redistricting plan, that will have the greatest immediate impact. To satisfy the Voting Rights Act of 1965, several states have created congressional districts in which blacks or Hispanics constitute a majority. As a result, in the past decade the number of minority representatives in Congress has nearly doubled...
...will have to rely on the private sector. Training Inc. is a national nonprofit group that helps people polish their job skills. This has given counselors like Bev Schroeder a window on people's dreams and expectations. She works at the Indianapolis branch. "When I do presentations, I'm struck by the number of people who ask, 'How much will I make at the end?' " she says. "I talk about process. They say, 'I can't take $7.50 an hour. I need at least $30,000 a year.' I say, 'What do you have now?' " The trainees talk about owning...
...CAME TO PASS LAST WEEK THAT 219 YEARS after the Declaration of Independence proclaimed that all men are created equal, 132 years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, 41 years after the Supreme Court struck down segregation and three months after Mississippi ratified the 13th Amendment, the Southern Baptist Convention finally got around to admitting that slavery is sinful and asked forgiveness from blacks for its historic role in defending segregation...