If children attend a parochial school, religious indoctrination will make up a part of their educational experience. There's nothing wrong with that, argues Steven Shapiro, legal director of the New York-based American Civil Liberties Union - unless their school tuition is being paid by a government...
Integration of Central High Beals, Melba Pattillo. Warriors Don't Cry. New York: Washington Square Press, 1994. In "Warriors Don't Cry," Beals talks about the Integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. The first day of school began for nine African American students on Sep...
Washington forced economic sanctions that practically destroyed the economy. ... Throughout this process, the U.S. press followed Washington's lead, selecting villains in terms of current needs. ... The Washington-media coalition and the main magazines abstained from passing judgment on the falsified elections, but dismissed as utterly worthless the Sandinistas' far more free and honest election in the same year. ... Suharto of Indonesia, arguably the worst killer of them all, remains a Washington-media "moderate."" The fact was that at exactly the moment it invaded Panama becaus...
Government Spending & Budget As many Federal departments and agencies lurch into an era of running without funds, the leaders of both parties of Congress are spending less and less time searching for a compromise to balance the budget, and more and more time deciding how to use it to...
