Curriculum committee backs Ox Bow Incident in Johnston City
The Johnston City Education Association curriculum committee led by Lewis Miles recommends keeping The Ox Bow Incident on the high school reading list with nonpunitive alternatives for students objecting to profanity or religious concerns. The panel found objections sincere, cites First Amendment considerations, and urges adoption by the district board at the July 21 meeting.
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Johnston City Education Association
Ox Bow
Walter van Tilburg Clark
Johnston City High School
God
Lewis Miles
Board of Review
Paul Blades
First Free Will and
Harmony Free Will Baptist
Johnston City
Old West
Alvin Cutsinger
Roberta Dobraski
Sandra Dobbins
Carolyn Grant
Patricia Koontz
Sandra Smith
Gene Snider
Jack Wale
Supreme Court
William Koenecke
Board of Education
The think tank Reagan calls home
Herbert Hoover's 1919 gift created a library and archive that grew into a major think tank harboring a who’s who of conservative thought. The Hoover Institution at Stanford shapes Reagan era policy with members like Friedman, Hayek, Solzhenitsyn, and Teller, while scholars recount its influence on politics and diplomacy.
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Mike Feinsilber
Palo Alto
Calif
Herbert Hoover
Karl Marx
Ronald Reagan
Reagan
Hoover Institution
Hoover
Brookings Institution
Washington
Peter Duignan
Stanford
John Anderson
Pisa
Italy
Hooverites
W. Glenn Campbell
United States
America
Europe
Stanford University
John J. Pershing
American Expeditionary Forces
Atlantic
Ray Lyman Wilbur
West Branch
Iowa
Sidney Hook
Campbell
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
American Enterprise Institute
California
Milton Friedman
Rose
Friedrich A. Hayek
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Solzhenitsyn
Russia
Gerald R. Ford
Henry Kissinger
White House
ERA debate argued to end discrimination in law
Letter writers defend the Equal Rights Amendment, contending it would prevent discrimination without altering private life. Citing Yale Law Journal and Harvard scholars, they argue ERA would create legal equality while preserving personal freedoms and private relationships.
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Southern Illinoisan
Elaine Folden
Kathy Woodhouse
Harvard
Yale
Transforma
Yale Law Journal
Good things kids do prompt reader praise for school
Letter from Pete and Pat Koehn Ava commends the Southern Illinoisan for sharing positive youth stories. They mention a photo of school children with a teacher releasing balloons and a postcard found on their farm from a Carrollton School fourth grader. They request more such features.
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Southern Illnoisan
Carrollton School
Vance Harvard speech critiques policy and resigns
James Reston notes Cyrus Vance's Harvard commencement address reveals deep doubts about U S foreign policy. The former secretary criticizes leaders for reacting to the moment, urges long term goals, and links a weaker aid program and energy crisis to national strength, while praising Carter personally but condemning his approach.
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James Reston
New York Times
Washington
Cyrus Vance
Yale
Harvard
Vance
U.S
Iran
Carter
Congress
Cy Vance
United States
West
Afghanistan
America
Capitol Hill
Muskie
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Vietnam
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Mao Tsetung
G.I
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Gestapo
Britain
Hitler
Winston Churchill
Sigmund Freud
Ignace Paderewski
Poland
Eduard Benes
Czechoslovakia
Hoover Tower
Milrad Drachkovitch
Yugoslavia
Vasili Romanov
Nicholas 1
Prince
Soviet Union
San Francisco
Edward Teller
Dan Throop Smith
Martin Anderson
Omas Gale Moore
Richard Staar
The
Pete and
Pat Koehn
Ava
Pentagon
Hawks
Thatcher
London
Giscard d’Estaing
Paris
Schmidt
West Germany
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