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The Segregated Classrooms of a Proudly Diverse School By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Published: April 3, 2005 MAPLEWOOD, N. J., April 1 - Columbia High School seems to have it all - great sports teams, great academics, famous alumni and an impressive campus with Gothic buildings. But no one boasts about one aspect of this blue-ribbon school, that its classrooms are largely segregated. Though the school is majority black, white students make up the bulk of the advanced classes, while black students far outnumber whites in lower-level classes, statistics show.

Picture this: Somewhere in the world, a filmmaker creates a short documentary that chronicles what he perceives as the excesses of anti-abortion activists. An anti-abortion zealot reacts to the film by killing the filmmaker in broad daylight and stabbing anti-abortion tracts onto his body. How does the Hollywood community react to this atrocity? Would there be angry protests? Candlelight vigils? Outraged letters and columns and articles? Awards named in honor of their fallen comrade? Demands for justice? Calls for protection of artistic freedom? It’s a pretty safe bet that there would be all of the above and much more. And...

Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind. I lost my job this past year. When Clinton was president I was secure and prosperous, but in the last year, we had to close our operations. We simply could not compete with foreign labor. This foreign labor worked for low pay under very bad conditions. They worked very long shifts, and many even died on the job. This competition could hardly be called fair." I was forced out of the place where I had worked for 34 years. Not a single government program was there to help me....

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INS rumor sends some Evansville workers running March 29, 2003 EVANSVILLE (AP) -- A rumor that immigration officials were afoot caused about three dozen AmeriQual Group LLC's workers to flee its plant, briefly slowing production of prepackaged meals for the military. Between 30 and 40 temporary workers left the plant on U.S. 41 Wednesday after rumors spread that federal immigration officials were in the building. Randy Stuckmeyer, president and CEO of AmeriQual, said two Hispanic men suspected of being illegal aliens produced fake identification to AmeriQual human resources staff Wednesday. "We called the sheriff's department and once that got out,...