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Soon after the September 11 attacks on the nation, Fred Phelps of the 213-member Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kansas rushed to write a press release. By the next day, it was already posted on his church’s website, www.godhatesfags.com, declaring: “The Rod of God hath smitten fag America...
When is someone going to say what the real solution is to the problems kids are having today? Stay home, parents, and rear your children! If that doesn't fit into your plan, then do everyone a favor, and don't have any. SANDY DAIGER Topeka, Kans...
DIED. CHARLES BLACK JR., 85, eloquent authority on constitutional law who in 1954 helped write the legal brief for 10-year-old Topeka, Kans., student Linda Brown, plaintiff in the watershed case Brown v. Board of Education; in New York City. From 1947 until his death, Black taught law at Columbia and Yale, where his students included Hillary Rodham Clinton; he also wrote more than 20 books, including Impeachment: a Handbook, widely read during Watergate and reissued during the proceedings against Bill Clinton...
Bollinger compared the Michigan affirmative action lawsuits to the landmark Supreme Court case Brown v. Topeka Board of Education, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that public schools should be integrated. If the U-M affirmative action policy is not upheld, he said, society runs the risk of sliding "back into a world in which we don't attend to those issues...
Bullying is often performance art. Peter Fonagy, a psychologist who helped develop an antibullying model popular in Topeka, Kans., schools, believes that bullies and their victims usually make up no more than 10% to 20% of any school population. "The whole drama is supported by the bystander," says Fonagy. "The theater can't take place if there's no audience." Seeds University Elementary School in Los Angeles uses "equity guidelines" to target both bullies and bystanders. Parents and students sign contracts at the beginning of the year stipulating that no child may be put down for academic performance, appearance, family...