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...students had been enrolled in private schools--should government simply ignore them? "We are not provoking a voucher debate," Spellings contended, "as much as trying to provide aid for these displaced families, whether they have been in private schools or public schools." Her proposal seems carefully crafted to avoid substantive constitutional objections. Although it calls for the distribution of the public-school funds primarily through districts, the private-school money is directed not to schools but to families, in keeping with the concerns of the 2002 Supreme Court decision allowing private-school vouchers so long as the parents retain...
...well as papilloma virus, which can cause cervical cancer. "Since we have evidence that kids are engaging in oral sex," says Rachel Jones of the Alan Guttmacher Institute in New York City, "we need to provide them with information about the public-health consequences and how they can avoid them." And that can happen without waiting for any more studies. --With reporting by Carolina A. Miranda/New York
...timing of these sentiments was also distressing: after less than a week in Cambridge, newcomers were first asked to imagine hostile upperclassmen and then asked to avoid those upperclassmen, encouraging an artificial chasm in the student body. This attempt at ostracism is unbefitting a Harvard student, a student of any institution, and most generally, a human being. Moreover, The Crimson Staff assumed a universal resentment of the freshmen, which is false...
...exit strategy. In a TIME poll taken 10 days after the hurricane, 57% said they disapproved of President Bush's handling of the war; 61% said they supported cutting Iraq spending to pay for hurricane relief. Pentagon spokesman Larry DiRita downplays those figures, asking, "What is it worth to avoid another 9/11?" But privately, Pentagon officials acknowledge that the reservoir of public faith in the war effort is running dangerously low. "The issue of American staying power is forefront in our minds," says a military officer. "Everything has costs...
TIME How can you avoid the dangers of what you have called "Big Business disease"--of Toyota becoming too large and complacent...