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...about 12 percent of Tulia's tiny black minority. Critics are also troubled by the stiff sentences handed down by predominantly white juries (a white man with close ties to the black community received more than 300 years; a young black man received 20 years for selling just an eighth of an ounce of cocaine). On top of it all, the white undercover agent who conducted the sting has a shady past that includes accusations of theft and running out on debts - facts that were not allowed in any of the jury trials...
...education that we started to see real results. Bush jabbed at those who think he's dumb by proving he could count out consecutive numbers. ?I believe we ought to measure a lot - three, four, five, six, seven, eighth grade. We do so in my state of Texas." For some reason the Truster declared "The Subject might exaggerate from time to time." That seemed unfairly harsh. Perhaps it was chiding Bush for missing out on the first two grades...
Jill Berg '90, a seventh- and eighth-grade teacher at Cambridgeport, walks toward the office after school...
...made so many friends in the park," says eighth-grader Julian E. Joslin...
Deborah Epstein, the parent of an eighth-grader, says she remembers "great anger and bitterness" surrounding that process...