... general, vocational tracks, and fewer academically rigorous courses. Even though the course titles are similar for black and white students, the content varies. Black students are more likely to be enrolled in business or general math and less likely to be in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, or calculus. Although 53 percent of white eleventh-graders could perform reading tasks ... with more than twice as many poor classmates as the average white student (New 13). The growing importance of education has challenged American ideals of equality. Education increasingly separates the economica...

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... enforcement measures-served as laboratories within which abstract, post-Nuremberg conceptions of justice took shape and became reality. The indictment of sitting heads of state, such as Slobodan Milosevic, became a defining moment for the rule of law in its most stark sense, embodying the proposition-captured in the Nuremberg Judgment's aphorism-that "[c]rimes against international law are committed by men, not by abstract entities, and ... precedents radically surfaced and mainstreamed accountability, profoundly and irreversibly altering the conventional wisdom about the boundaries of ...

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