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Teachers hurl that charge right back at their critics. "My worst fear is that the religious right wants to have public schools present a certain way of thinking and living," says Tom Conry, president of the teacher's association in Vista, California. "They are not interested in students learning how to discuss, how to think or how to form their own opinions...
Since last November, when Christian conservatives captured a majority of Vista's school-board seats, the board has shifted from opposition to neutrality on Proposition 174, a school-choice initiative that will go before California voters next Tuesday. It is expected to be shot down, but if it passes, parents will be entitled to draw $2,600 in government funds if they place their child in a private or parochial school. John Chase of the National Education Association, the country's largest teachers' union, decries such voucher programs as an attempt by religious conservatives to "pull kids out of public...
...Bentsen's seat until the election, attempted a Hollywood- style comeback. A former English literature professor, he appeared in a commercial in leather and sunglasses a la Terminator, confessed to stuffiness and a proclivity for bad dark suits, then spouted the line, "Was it Shakespeare who said, 'Hasta la vista, baby'?" The act of self-deprecation bombed, becoming instead one of self-mockery. A Hutchison ad's reply: "Hasta la vista, Bobby." Even Barbara Bush piped in. "I know Arnold Schwarzenegger," she said. "And Bob Krueger is no Schwarzenegger." Late in the campaign, young Republicans paraded outside Krueger's headquarters...
TEXAS: Hasta la Vista, Bobby...
...meeting late Friday evening, the state and federal agencies involved in the case hammered out a protocol to govern the inquiry. The first priority was to stabilize the pillars that hold up the Vista Hotel on the Trade Center plaza and which were supported in turn by the garage floors that were ripped away in the blast. Before investigators can safely enter the blast site, workers must buttress the dangerous sagging remnants of the garage and lay a web of tubular steel beams across the crater left by the bomb. It may be days before investigators can begin to sift...