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Such excesses have popped up with some regularity for a few years, but the consequences for rule breaking are getting harsher. Jesse Jackson has made an issue of severe punishment in Decatur, Ill., where six students were thrown out of school for one year for fighting at a football game. But that sort of violence (a videotape of the incident shows a wild brawl) has long been cause for expulsion. What's new is that even pranks can land kids not just before the school board but before a judge. Two weeks ago in Virginia, a pair of 10-year...
...Hall concerts featuring an eye-popping array of now legendary jazz, blues and gospel artists, including Basie, Sidney Bechet, Charlie Christian, Benny Goodman, Sister Rosetta Tharpe and Big Joe Turner. Both concerts are available for the first time on CD, in digitally remastered sound, with 23 previously unreleased tracks thrown in to sweeten the pot. This three-disc boxed set is a platinum mine of great American music...
...focusing entirely on style and presentation and utterly ignoring content and meaning. Ultimately, Horowitz seems to be using West as a vehicle to make his attack on the university system in general, when he writes "For his intellectual charade reflects the political sickness of the modern academy, which has thrown over its traditional calling to the 'disinterested pursuit of knowledge' and assumed a new institutional identity as an 'agency of social change.'" Horowitz ends with the statement that "The Cornel West Reader is a testament to the intellectual vacuum that a progressive education creates...
Actually, any job Giuliani might take after he leaves city hall would require an adjustment in the way he behaves. If one of your partners in a law firm criticizes your litigation strategy during a meeting, after all, you're not normally in a position to have him thrown out of his office or even to arrange for the custodial staff to discontinue the collection of his trash...
...WISCONSIN TAXPAYERS The state's tax rebates are being mailed in envelopes that have caused them to be be confused with junk mail, and some recipients have thrown them away. The checks, averaging $271, come in an envelope with a sales tax logo and a quote from the governor saying "It's Your Money...