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...Margaret Sanger b) Franklin D. Roosevelt c) Madonna d) Martin Luther King Jr...
That may prove to be more of a curse than a blessing. Last week a federal judge struck down Cleveland's voucher program, ruling that it violates the constitutional separation of church and state. Citing Jefferson and Madison, Judge Solomon Oliver Jr. wrote that because four-fifths of the private schools participating in the voucher program are religious, the program robs parents of "genuine choice" between sectarian and secular schools, thus "advancing religion through government-supported religious indoctrination." The decision is the fourth in recent months to bar the use of vouchers in parochial schools, and voucher opponents--mainly teachers...
...spirit and philosophy, however, transformed the century. His most notable heir was Martin Luther King Jr. "If humanity is to progress," King once declared, "Gandhi is inescapable...
...lasting peace, and he devoted his life to building a new era of progress. Roosevelt's leadership steered not only America but also the world through the roughest seas of the century. And he did it with a combination of skilled statesmanship, innovative spirit and, as Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. put it, "a first-class temperament...
Queen Elizabeth II ( ) Martin Luther King Jr. ( ) Mohandas Gandhi ( ) Corazon Aquino ( ) Andrew Grove ( ) Joseph Stalin ( ) Charles de Gaulle ( ) Owen D. Young ( ) Ayatullah Khomeini ( ) Harry S Truman ( ) Winston Churchill ( ) Haile Selassie ( ) Wallis Simpson ( ) Richard Nixon ( ) Mikhail Gorbachev ( ) Pope John Paul...