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...Desperate Housewives," a dark-humored soap about a clique of suburban woman and their friend who kills herself but manages, "American Beauty"-style, to narrate the show...
From Spanish Basques to Moroccan Muslims to--an Aloha, Ore., lawyer? The global probe into the March 11 train bombings that killed 191 people in Madrid homed in on suburban Portland last week, when the FBI took former Army officer and Muslim convert Brandon Mayfield, 37, into custody on a material witness warrant. So far, 18 people have been charged in the attacks, which are being blamed on a Morocco-based cell of Muslim extremists. In March, a plastic shopping bag containing detonators like those used in the attacks was discovered inside a stolen white van near a suburban Madrid...
...desegregation. He argues that the closing of black neighborhood schools--with their traditions, yearbooks, mottoes, fight songs and halls of fame--ripped the centerpiece out of those communities. "It removed support systems," McFrazier says. Black role models--doctors and educators--left the neighborhood and moved to suburban communities, taking their achievement ethic with them. "That lowered expectations," says McFrazier. And even though the races now sit side by side, Brown did little to alter the subtle but powerful prejudices within classrooms that lead teachers to expect more from white students than they do from minority students...
When a yellow school bus rumbles by on busy Interstate 95 in Wilmington, Del., it ticks Wayne Smith off. Since he was first elected to Delaware's state legislature in 1990, Smith, 41, has crusaded to end this small city's unusual urban-suburban busing program, which was imposed by court order in 1978. Educators say the program has helped make Delaware's schools among the nation's most integrated. Smith says it has driven families out of public education and broken the color-blind promise of Brown. "Having grown up here, I just thought it was wrong to break...
...than a mile from where he lives now, a federal court had ordered Wilmington's New Castle County to comply with one of the most invasive busing orders in the country--a plan that reorganized its 11 school districts into four systems, each of them part urban and part suburban. Under the order, all students had to attend school for three years in the city and nine years in the suburbs...