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...13th floor of the Adams Hotel in downtown Phoenix, there is an unmarked suite, guarded by a security man and bristling with typewriters, telephones, dictating and duplicating equipment. Last week the first of some 18 investigative reporters from 14 papers across the U.S. began drifting into that mini-city room to start the most remarkable journalistic joint effort since Woodward met Bernstein...
Well, that's about it. Maybe we'll get together before Thanksgiving, maybe not. How about the weekend of November 13th? I thought for sure that that was the Harvard-Yale weekend, but no one has said anything about it, and besides, I have three hourlies scheduled for that week. Now I know that Harvard is backwards about many things, but they wouldn't schedule midterms on the week before The Game, would they? Give my best to Aunt Lil. Love...
...Arthur Garrity Jr., one of the five magistrates who handles cases before the United States District Court of the District of Massachusetts. The 14 words that impelled his forced busing mandate lie at the tail of the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed three years after the 13th amendment freed black and all other slaves. This vague and pivotal half-sentence, dubbed "The Equal Protection Clause," requires that "no State shall...deny to any person in its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
...Arthur Garrity Jr., one of the five magistrates who handles cases before the United States District Court of the District of Massachusetts. The 14 words that impelled his forced busing mandate lie at the tail of the 14th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, passed three years after the 13th amendment freed black and all other slaves. This vague and pivotal half-sentence, dubbed "The Equal Protection Clause," requires that "no State shall...deny to any person in its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws...
...Khazaria is thin in primary source material. The kingdom seems to have flourished as a crossroads of East-West trade. Persecuted Jews from Byzantium are believed to have flocked to Khazaria, where they intermarried with their Caucasian coreligionists. When Genghis Khan's Mongols swept westward in the 13th century, Khazaria's Jews fled to Eastern and Central Europe. These fugitives, Koestler suggests, were part of a second Diaspora that became the Ashkenazim, or European Jews of Russia and Poland. True Semitic Jews, he says, are descendants of the Sephardim, that small group whose exile wanderings can be traced...