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...polls-tied with John Edwards, without even being in the race-he would easily get on the primary ballots if he declared before the deadlines. He may not be rich enough to self-finance, but with his Apple and Google stock, Web following and Silicon Valley connections, money wouldn't be a huge problem either. "He just has to say the word," says a wealthy friend. But those who know him well would be very surprised if it happened. He hasn't built a shadow organization. His travel isn't calibrated to the primaries. And he's just not thinking...
...Seeing an opportunity to bring order to chaos, Joe Firmage, former USWeb founder and Internet whiz-kid, has founded Digital Universe - a rapidly evolving project supported by his Silicon Valley-based company ManyOne Networks...
...Napa Valley evokes images of wine and elegant living, but during the mid-1990s gangs roamed local high schools and recruited younger members from places like Redwood Middle School. School officials barred suspected troublemakers from wearing certain colors and flashing signs associated with gangs, and violence dropped. Encouraged, the officials got together with parents to create a schoolwide dress code in 1998: no jeans, no pins, no patterns, no reds and no logos of professional sports teams. "Has it worked? Yes," declares Redwood principal Michael Pearson. "Now there is safety on campus. We're on to something here...
...typical ADF case involves a student prevented from singing a religious song, distributing antiabortion pamphlets or, most recently, wearing an anti-gay T shirt at school. In a case decided last month, the organization's lawyers represented Heidi Zamecnik, 17, a senior at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Ill., a suburb southwest of Chicago. Zamecnik wanted to wear a T shirt that said BE HAPPY, NOT GAY on the day after students observed a Day of Silence in support of gay rights. The school said she could wear a shirt opposing homosexuality, but one with a less derogatory message...
Sally Jensen Dutcher, general counsel for the Napa Valley schools, says the dress-code case will cost the district at least $50,000 in expenses if it goes to trial, and perhaps "hundreds of thousands" if it's appealed. That's a small piece of the district's $118 million budget, but it "bothers me when that money could be better spent educating students," she says...