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Jeff Jacoby

Antimilitary bigotry

By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / November 19, 2006

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"IN THE FIRST place God made idiots," observed Mark Twain. "This was for practice. Then he made school boards." The San Francisco Board of Education's 4-2 vote last week to abolish the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps program, which has been active in the city's high schools for 90 years, tends to support his view. (Full article: 781 words)

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