Ms. Parks had contended that she had the right to request the song, which contains strong lnaguage, not use her name and stop sales of the album with the song in question. But a federal judge ruled that because the song was not strictly for advertising and that it did have Rosa Parks at least partially as the subject of the song, the First Amendment allows the band to use her name. America s medical interns, young students who work in teaching hospitals, routinely work 24 hour shifts and go without sleep while they practice medicine in the surgical rooms and emergency wards of our hospitals. Though they ve long been considered students rather than workers, last week a federal court decided that they qualify as workers and are eligible to unionize. But with the rise of the Internet, Germans have been able to easily purchase it online and have it delivered to their house, so much so that it actually reached the top ten lists in that country.
Friends belong with friends, age group with age group, classmates with classmates.
That s the theory behind social promotion, the principle of advancing students through classes regardless of whether they ve learned the material. In recent years, many areas, including Los Angeles, have decided to end the practice. But with the growing realization that as many as half of each classes students are not able to pass the threshold of knowledge required to advance a grade, these same municipalities are reluctantly going back to social promotion.