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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 [...]
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
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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
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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; [...]