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Although seven of the twelve jurors said they believed the nine child witnesses were molested "in some sense by someone," the prosecution was unable to show that the children were abused at the McMartin Pre-School in Manhattan Beach, Calif. Nonetheless, Peggy McMartin Buckey, 63, and her son Raymond, 31, spent two years and five years, respectively, in jail before their acquittal on 52 criminal counts. They have lost everything, including their good standing in the community...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Six Years of Trial by Torture | 1/29/1990 | See Source »

...Winners may pay lip-service to equal opportunity, but in reality, they revel in the stacked-deck advantages of starting life as Winners. Competitive admissions to pre-school and the explosion of SAT coaching were strictly 80s phenomena for precisely this reason...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Winners Take All | 1/3/1990 | See Source »

...Winners may pay lip-service to equal opportunity, but in reality, they revel in the stacked-deck advantages of starting life as Winners. Competitive admissions to pre-school and the explosion of SAT coaching were strictly '80s phenomena for precisely this reason...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Winners Take All | 12/16/1989 | See Source »

...shared experiences on promising new approaches to education, such as administrative decentralization which would transfer power from bureaucrats to teachers. For his part, Bush vowed to cooperate with governors to increase flexibility and accountability in state education. Notably, Bush also pledged to increase funding for Head Start, a successful pre-school program for poor children, by $250 million...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Political Points | 10/3/1989 | See Source »

Recalling his entrance to the statehouse in 1965, the Washingtonian said changing from private citizen to private figure caused a major shift in his family life. Evans explains that his wife had a difficult job, with two of their sons in pre-school and the third a newborn...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Evans Offers Perspectives from Senate and Statehouse | 3/8/1989 | See Source »

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