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Confession: I voted for Alan Keyes in the primary. Keyes is

Last week, while I was buried alive in a huge volunteer project

Hot off the press: city records show that a couple of dozen city

159948~Home school students must comply---Dear Editor,

I graduated high school in New York State, long before the days of exit exams. In New York, there were two types of diplomas you could receive upon graduation, the standard diploma or the Regents diploma. My school required that all graduates must pass the Regents exams and receive a Regents diploma, and so every member of my class did just that. My parents knew the requirements going in, and I and my classmates knew those requirements, and so we followed the rules and successfully graduated.

It is important that we define our terms. Criteria is a term you

Last fall, I wrote a column about salaries and discipline in