Archive for August 5th, 2003

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Superintendent Fails Fluency Test

An earlier posting concerning dozens of Massachusetts school teachers
who were about to lose their jobs after having failed a new, state-mandated
English fluency test (Teachers
Fail Fluency Test, Lose Jobs, Sue) takes on [...]

Lest the World Forget

The Harvard Law School Library has approximately one
million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political
leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal. Now
[...]

Cross-dressing Commandos Terrorize Liberia

Few things exemplify the chaos of Liberia more than the
sight of doped-up, AK-47-wielding 15-year-olds roaming the streets decked
out in fright wigs and tattered wedding gowns. Indeed, some of the more
[...]

Sorry Saga: Mike Squandered $400 Million

Perhaps
the most spectacular of modern morality plays is the saga of Mike Tyson,
mythical in his abilities and his appitites. It is the contradictions
in the man which fascinate; [...]


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