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Residents of Topeka, Kans., accustomed to seeing daily placards with such coarse slogans as GOD HATES FAGS and GOT AIDS YET?, have learned to put up with the family responsible for those signs in the same way some people endure living next to screeching railroad tracks. Now they're enduring the typically grating campaign of a young member of the clan who is trying to unseat the first openly gay member of the city council...
...rationale for the war in Iraq hinged on dismantling a murderous regime. The Bush Administration's choice to ignore the situation in Sudan either reflects a lack of commitment to principle or calls into question the President's motives for invading Iraq. Adam Obley Topeka...
ADAM OBLEY Topeka, Kans...
...When the government institutes a sin, it’s the job of God’s people to say something about it,” said Ben Phelps, 28, a Topeka, Kan., resident who had traveled to Cambridge with several members of his church group...
...says. "But has it done anything to improve academic success? No. It's failed miserably." Black students now have access to newer books in nicer facilities alongside their white peers, but as a group they still perform below white students, an achievement gap that has bedeviled two generations of Topeka educators. On the latest state-administered reading test, for example, 34% of black juniors scored "unsatisfactory," compared to just 13% of whites. Why? Ironically, McFrazier blames the end of desegregation. He argues that the closing of black neighborhood schools--with their traditions, yearbooks, mottoes, fight songs and halls of fame...