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...In response to ‘The battle over schools’:“My wife is a middle school teacher in Bergen County, New Jersey....
...We got a review, and Baker v Nelson went to the district court, then the Supreme Court of Minnesota in 1971....
...A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler, Chatto & Windus, RRP£18.99/Knopf, RRP$25.95 Tyler returns to her usual Baltimore milieu for her 20th novel, another insightful study of family life....
...Twelve states and the District of Columbia now allow same-sex marriage, and polls show that the public is increasingly comfortable with the idea....
...“That happened during the time of crack, when we were the murder capital of the world, and when the school system was in the toilet. Anybody that could move to neighbouring counties did.”...
...His mother, a district nurse, struggled to bring up a family of four....
...Housing foreclosures are continuing, with the county sheriff’s office listing around 250 forced sales a week....
...As I walk by, police are handcuffing a young man outside a school where pupils pass through metal detectors on the lookout for guns....
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