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		<title>Education Victory in California: Teacher Tenure Ruled Unconstitutional</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2014 04:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The court decision sending teachers unions across the country into a tailspin. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #232323;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kid_raising_hand_in_classroom_page-bg_15285.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-233739" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kid_raising_hand_in_classroom_page-bg_15285-450x281.jpg" alt="kid_raising_hand_in_classroom_page-bg_15285" width="296" height="185" /></a>In a <a href="http://studentsmatter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Tenative-Decision.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">ruling</span></a> with major implications for the rest of the nation, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge has <a href="http://www.scpr.org/programs/airtalk/2014/06/10/37844/court-decides-vital-california-education-case/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">declared</span></a> that tenure, teacher disciplinary policies and seniority-based job protection as they currently exist in California public schools are unconstitutional. “Evidence has been elicited in this trial of the specific effect of grossly ineffective teachers on students,” Judge Rolf M. Treu wrote in his ruling. “The evidence is compelling. Indeed, it shocks the conscience.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Part of the compelling evidence in <i>Vergara v. California</i> was a “massive study” conducted in 2013 by <a href="http://studentsmatter.org/ai1ec_event/vergara-trial-day-3/?instance_id="><span style="color: #1255cc;">Dr. Raj  Chetty</span></a>, a William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Economics at Harvard. Treu noted that according to Chetty’s testimony, “a single year in a classroom with a grossly ineffective teacher costs students $1.4 million in lifetime earnings per classroom.” Harvard Professor Dr. Thomas Kane, who <a href="http://studentsmatter.org/ai1ec_event/vergara-trial-day-9/?instance_id="><span style="color: #1255cc;">based</span></a> a study of his own on Chetty’s groundbreaking work, came to equally damning conclusions. He testified that students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) taught by a teacher whose competency level is in bottom 5 percent “lose 9.54 months of learning in a single year compared to students with average teachers.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Tenure and disciplinary policy work hand in glove in that regard. Attorneys for the advocacy group Students Matter, who <a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/01/27/students-sue-calif-over-teacher-tenure-seniority-policies/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">filed</span></a> the lawsuit on behalf of nine public school students in 2012, successfully argued that teachers protected by tenure laws are virtually impossible to fire, no matter how bad they are. LAUSD Superintendent John Deasy reinforced that reality when he testified that it takes more than two years on average to fire a bad tenured teacher, with some cases taking as long as a <i>decade </i>to resolve. He further noted the costs for doing so can run between $250,000 and $400,000 per teacher.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Plaintiffs also insisted that the state’s tenure system, which grants teachers permanent employment after <a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_25935432/l-judge-strikes-down-californias-laws-teacher-tenure"><span style="color: #1255cc;">approximately 18 months</span></a> on the job, is an inadequate amount of time to determine a teacher’s effectiveness. Dr. David Berliner, Professor of Education at Arizona State University, reinforced that notion <a href="http://studentsmatter.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/SM_Plaintiffs-Closing-Argument-Presentation_03.27.14.pdf"><span style="color: #1255cc;">testifying</span></a> that a probationary period of &#8220;three or even five years” would be far more effective. In his ruling, Treu noted that Berliner estimated as many as 1-3 percent of California teachers are “grossly ineffective.” Since there are approximately 275,000 teachers statewide, 2,750 to 8,250 of them fall into that category. Treu ruled that such a reality has &#8220;a direct, real appreciable and negative impact on a significant number of California students now and well into the future for as long as said teachers hold their positions.&#8221;</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Kane’s study revealed that most of those students affected by bad teachers are black and Hispanic. Black students are 43 percent more likely than white students to have a teacher in the bottom 5 percent of competency inflicted upon them, while Hispanic students are 68 percent more likely than whites to endure the same fate. The educational “deficits” arising from such “disparate impact” amount to 1.08 months of schooling lost every year for black students, and 1.55 months of schooling lost every year for Hispanic students, relative to their white counterparts. Kane noted that these disparities occur even when schools do not have predominantly minority student populations.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Kane further testified that the so-called “achievement gap” is exacerbated by this ongoing reality. “Rather than assign them more effective teachers to help close the gap with white students they’re assigned less effective teachers, which results in the gap being slightly wider in the following year,” he explained.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Seniority-based job protection, more familiarly known as “first in, last out,” contributes to the overall problem as well. It is the policy whereby any teacher layoffs are based on seniority rather than the competency of the teachers involved. Superintendent Deasy and former mayor Antonio Villaraigosa spoke out against the practice. So did Treu, who cited the iconic case of<em> Brown v. Board of Education</em> while tying seniority to tenure and discipline policies to reach his decision. “Substantial evidence makes it clear to this Court that the Challenged Statutes disproportionately affect poor and/or minority students,” Treu wrote.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">After ruling the statutes unconstitutional, he stayed all injunctive issues until they could be reviewed by an appellate court. He further noted it was the job of the state legislature, not the courts, to replace the current laws with new ones that “pass constitutional muster, thus providing each child in this state with a basically equal opportunity to achieve a quality education.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Unsurprisingly, the two teachers unions involved in the case plan to <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/california-teacher-job-protections-struck-down-in-students-suit-1402422428"><span style="color: #1255cc;">appeal</span></a> the decision. &#8220;We don&#8217;t believe the court is the place to be making these kinds of policy decisions,&#8221; said Frank Wells, a spokesman for the California Teachers Association who added that the ruling &#8220;is not going to help kids in badly managed school districts; it&#8217;s only going to make things worse. We are confident that we will prevail on appeal,” he added. Joshua Peshtal, President of the California Federation of Teachers, was also <a href="http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/06/10/judge-rules-calif-teacher-tenure-laws-unconstitutional/"><span style="color: #1255cc;">upset</span></a>. “We believe the judge fell victim to the anti-union, anti-teacher rhetoric of one of America’s finest corporate law firms,” he declared. Alex Caputo-Pearl, the president-elect of the Los Angeles teachers union, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-teacher-protections-ruling-20140610-story.html"><span style="color: #1255cc;">called</span></a> the decision &#8220;an attack on teachers, which is a socially acceptable way to attack children,” adding that instead of providing for smaller classes or more counselors, “you attack teacher and student rights.”</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Attorneys from both sides also voiced their opinions. “This is a monumental day for California’s public education system,” said plaintiff’s attorney Theodore Boutrous. “By striking down these irrational laws, the court has recognized that all students deserve a quality education. Today’s ruling is a victory not only for our nine plaintiffs; it is a victory for students, parents, and teachers across California.” Union lawyer James Finberg insisted the statutes prevent favoritism and politics from determining who is hired and retained, further claiming that three months is all that is necessary for administrator to make a “well-informed decision” regarding whether a probationary teacher should be kept on the job. Other lawyers representing teachers echoed the former sentiment, adding that socio-economic inequalities and school funding are far more important factors in determining the quality of an education.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Parties have 15 days to file objections. The California Attorney General&#8217;s office was non-committal. &#8220;We are reviewing the tentative ruling and consulting with our clients,&#8221; said Nick Pacilio, spokesman for Attorney General Kamala Harris. A spokesman for Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown declined to comment on the ruling.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Beatriz Vergara, for whom the suit was named, was one of nine students who said they filed the litigation because they were given teachers who lost control of their classrooms, and came to those classrooms unprepared to teach. The students also insisted that on occasion, some teachers told them they’d never amount to anything.</p>
<p style="color: #232323;">Both sides in this case do agree on one thing: this ruling will reverberate far beyond California. David Welch, a Silicon Valley technology entrepreneur and founder of Students Matter, has indicated his willingness to take on teachers unions in other states, especially states where teachers unions have been powerful enough to thwart legislative efforts to change the status quo. It is a status quo long defined by the symbiotic alliance between the Democratic Party and the teachers unions whose campaign contributions to the party elicit what is arguably the most transparent and despicable jobs-protection racket in the nation. A jobs-protection racket that has consigned millions of students, an increasing percentage of which are <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/viewSubCategory.asp?id=1812"><span style="color: #1255cc;">inner-city minorities</span></a>, to decade after decade of sub-par education. It is a sub-par education that unequivocally “shocks the conscience.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>AFL-CIO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:10:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[  The American Federation of Labor &#8211; Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest labor federation in America, consisting of 57 autonomous and international unions. For decades, under the leadership of George Meany and Lane Kirkland, this entity was a bastion of anti-communism. In fact, Meany invited Alexandre Solzhenitsyn to speak at AFL-CIO meetings and brought awareness of [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>The American Federation of Labor &#8211; Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) is the largest labor federation in America, consisting of 57 autonomous and international unions. For decades, under the leadership of <a href="http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/meany.cfm">George Meany</a> and <a href="http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/history/history/kirkland.cfm" target="_blank">Lane Kirkland</a>, this entity <a href="http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Anti-communism">was</a> a bastion of anti-communism. In fact, Meany invited Alexandre Solzhenitsyn to speak at AFL-CIO meetings and brought awareness of Soviet human rights abuses to U.S. audiences. Kirkland, for his part, used his power to funnel more than $6 million in aid to Polish workers &#8212; aid that was instrumental in Solidarity&#8217;s successful effort to end 50 years of Communist Party rule in Poland.</p>
<p>But after Lane Kirkland’s retirement in 1995, <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/individualProfile.asp?indid=2009">John Sweeney</a> became president of the AFL-CIO and was able to repeal an AFL-CIO rule prohibiting Communists from being leaders of its member unions. Abandoning the blue-color industrial unionism of the past, Sweeney, a member of <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6428" target="_blank">Democratic Socialists of America</a>, was instrumental in remaking labor into a movement of the Left.</p>
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		<title>The Times Finds A Lone Crazed Assassin</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the Grey Lady won't tell you about professor Amy Bishop.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/us/21bishop.html" target="_blank"><em>The New York Times</em>’ front page profile</a> on Saturday of professor Amy Bishop, who allegedly executed three University of Alabama Biology Department colleagues after being denied tenure, appears to be an exhaustively reported piece based on “numerous interviews with colleagues and others who knew her.” It portrays Bishop as violent and unpredictable, rejected by Harvard because of mediocre work and shunned by a series of neighbors and co-workers scared off by the suppressed rage that kept bubbling up to the surfaces of her social life, and also someone who may already have gotten away with the murder of her brother years earlier possibly because of her mother’s political connections in her home town of Braintree, Mass.</p>
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<p>“Between brilliance and rage” is the caption of the photo of Bishop used by the<em> Times</em> for the story, although the piece makes no case for the former.  But is this all the news that is fit to print about the perpetrator of this murder spree in academe?  What about the “family source” who told the Boston Herald that Bishop was,</p>
<blockquote><p>“<a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=144&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">a far left</a> political activist who was ‘obsessed’ with <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=1511" target="_blank">President Obama</a> to the point of being off putting”?</p></blockquote>
<p>What about the student who called her a <a href="http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/guideDesc.asp?catid=115&amp;type=issue" target="_blank">“socialist”</a>? What about one report that Bishop complained about a rule issued by University  of Alabama administrators regarding underclassmen living on campus because she believed it was destructive of “diversity.”  And what about the crowning irony of this case, whether or not she made this complaint: that two of the colleagues she allegedly killed were black and one was South Asian, and that Bishop thus wiped out the 14 person Biology department’s entire diversity in one burst of gunfire?</p>
<p>Considering the politics of Bishop’s <em>ressentiment</em> might have helped fill out the Times’ portrait of a psychopathic time bomb who had already gone off several times in her disordered life on her way to the Big Explosion on February 12 in Huntsville. There is no doubt, as the blogosphere has already noted, that the paper would have pursued even the vaguest hint that Bishop had been a fan of Glenn Beck or was a Tea Party fellow traveler as a major story line. For the Grey Lady, only the politics of the Right is personal.</p>
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		<title>Collaborators in the War against the Jews: Ian Lustick &#8211; by Steven Plaut</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Penn’s radical professor campaigns against Israel… for its own good.]]></description>
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<p><em>&#8220;There is no winning this war, because the war on terror is the enemy.&#8221;</em></p>
<p align="center">&#8212; <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/quotes.php" target="_blank">Ian Lustick</a></p>
<p>Three years ago, the tenured  left at DePaul was attempting to force the university into granting tenure to the anti-Semitic embarrassment <a href="http://97.74.65.51/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=25959" target="_blank">Norman Finkelstein</a>, who has no bona fide academic publications, and is <a href="../2009/09/24/collaborators-in-the-war-against-the-jews-norman-finkelstein-by-john-perazzo/feed" target="_blank">well known as a collaborator</a> with the Hezb’Allah terrorists.  To manipulate the tenure system, these leftists needed to recruit letters of recommendation from people at other schools who could be counted upon to endorse and support Finkelstein out of a sense of political solidarity with his propaganda.  Two academics were willing to play ball.  One was Avi Shlaim, a former Oxford professor known as a hater of Israel despite his own Israeli heritage.  The other was Ian Lustick, a radical Jewish anti-Israel and anti-American professor at the University of Pennsylvania who also stood and delivered for Finkelstein, although his opinion was not enough to convince the DePaul to give him tenure.</p>
<p>Lustick used to be Associate Director of the Solomon Asch Center for Ethnic Studies at Penn, named after a famous Gestalt psychologist who must be rolling in his grave at the fact that the Center named for him has hosted radicals and published work that includes a vilification of Israel for building its security wall to keep out suicide bombers.</p>
<p>Lustick has made an academic <a href="http://www.hirhome.com/lustick_plo.htm" target="_blank">career out of bashing Israel</a> and <a href="http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Lustick/lustick-con5.html" target="_blank">fighting <em>against</em> the</a> war on terror.  He <a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/3794" target="_blank">speaks frequently before</a> anti-Israel and pro-terror conferences and organizations.   He <a href="http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/faculty/faculty-articles&amp;papers/Lustick_Blood_and_Fire.doc" target="_blank">has also written for</a> Michael Lerner’s goofy pseudo-Jewish anti-Israel magazine, <em>Tikkun</em>.</p>
<p>Israelis who insist upon rejecting the demands made upon them by Islamofascist terrorists are denounced by <a href="http://members.tripod.com/alabasters_archive/dangerous_fundamentalists.html" target="_blank">Lustick as </a>“dangerous fundamentalists.”  Lustick has long campaigned for a Palestinian state and <a href="http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Lustick/lustick-con5.html" target="_blank">for the division</a> of Jerusalem.  He <a href="http://prrn.mcgill.ca/prrn/papers/lustick.html" target="_blank">has compared the Palestinian</a> “suffering” to that of the Jews in the Holocaust, and he has called on Israel to teach about this Palestinian experience in its schools just like German children study the Holocaust.  Meanwhile, he <a href="http://www.facinghistory.org/node/241" target="_blank">denounced the President of Harvard</a>, Lawrence Summers, for claiming that the “Divest from Israel” movement is anti-Semitic.  Like his client Norman Finkelstein, Lustick <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/7085" target="_blank">likes to rant</a> about the nefarious powers of the “Israel Lobby.”</p>
<p>In one of those Orwellian ironies, Lustick actually once headed the <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/442" target="_blank">Association for Israel Studies</a> in the United States.  He has never spent much time in Israel, although he claims that nation’s history and politics as a specialty. He is a defender of Israel’s own anti-Israel “New Historians,” who use historic revisionism to promote the agenda of Israel’s enemies. Lustick has spoken favorably of the so-called “<a href="http://www.passia.org/publications/Impasse/Pal-Isr-Impasse.htm" target="_blank">One-State Solution</a>” in which Israel will cease to exist altogether.  (Cynics refer to it as the Rwanda Solution.)  <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/7553" target="_blank">Lustick took part in the</a> anti-Israel <a href="http://www.yorku.ca/ipconf/index.html" target="_blank">York University conference</a> last year devoted to discovering an alternative to Israel’s continuing existence.</p>
<p>Lustick is almost as anti-American as he is anti-Israel.  He may be best known for his expressions of regret that America did not lose more soldiers in the campaign to topple the Taliban in Afghanistan. Denying that terrorism is a valid concept, he deconstructs the term by claiming that activities can be classified as “terrorist” if they encompass any violent “actions and threats” by governmental militaries and even tax collectors, as well as insurgents.&#8221;</p>
<p>Lustick <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6982" target="_blank">describes America&#8217;s relationship</a> to Israel as &#8220;like [that of] a friend to a drug addict.&#8221;  He <a href="http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people6/Lustick/lustick06-con4.html" target="_blank">denounces the United States</a> as a “neo-imperialist” power.  He <a href="http://www.polisci.upenn.edu/faculty/bios/Pubs/Hegemonic_Beliefs-Territorial_Rights.pdf" target="_blank">likes to rant against</a> “hegemonists,” by which he means mainly the US, the West, and Israel.  He <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/442" target="_blank">frequently speaks about</a> nefarious cabals – his word – notably those “of neocon warriors driving this juggernaut”  <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/2754" target="_blank">He insists that</a> President Bush and not al-Qaeda was the true cause of world terrorism.  He has campaigned staunchly <em>against</em> America’s war against terrorism and expressed his hostility in his book <a href="http://www.trappedinthewaronterror.com/" target="_blank"><em>Trapped in the War on Terror</em></a><em>. </em></p>
<p>Denouncing America’s military efforts in “The Nation,” Lustick wrote:</p>
<p>‘This is a supply-side war. There is very little demand for the war, and nothing in the way of a compelling necessity for it. But the enormous supply of political capital flowing toward the President after 9/11 combines with the overweening preponderance of US military power on a global level to make the production of war in Iraq not a trivial affair but one that can be embraced with relatively little thought and almost no need to appeal to a readiness to sacrifice.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, Lustick engages in equally tortured apologetics for Hamas, which he claims  “is mainly popular because one of the things it is trusted to do is probably be ready to live with Israel, even if not officially, for a very long time.”</p>
<p>Why is there no peace in the Middle East? <a href="http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/7234" target="_blank">Here is the</a> Lustick answer, according to a  Campus Watch report of a University of Pennsylvania event: “Lustick expressed grave doubts about a resolution to the conflict, and said that insisting on a ‘Jewish state’ and not a ‘predominantly Jewish polity’ in the Middle East is one barrier to any solution.”  A Jewish state is the obstacle; a Palestinian state is the solution.</p>
<p>When it came to Afghanistan, Lustick yearned for a longer war and was concerned only to discredit the so-called “cabal.” Said Lustick: “What I wanted was a war, a Goldilocks war, not too fast and not too slow, but we didn&#8217;t get it. We got one that was too fast and it gave the whip end to the cabal.” This cabal, Lustick contended, comprised “neo-conservative warriors” who aspired to nothing less than “American-military-enforced new order in the Middle East with pretensions and fantasies of democratization of the region of an American rule, domination of the oil wealth there, establishment of large, semi-permanent military bases in the heart of the region and the elimination of all pressures on Israel to withdraw from the West Bank and Gaza.”</p>
<p>A few years back Lustick was in the news for what has become known as the Gil-White Affair.  Francisco Gil-White <a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=14252" target="_blank">was fired by Penn at</a> the initiative of Lustick and claims that this was because of the fact that Lustick disapproved of the pro-Israel opinions and activism of Gil-White, who alleges that Lustick&#8217;s motivation for this opposition was Gil-White&#8217;s research into the historical origins of Arab terrorism.</p>
<p>Such research is, for Lustick, illegitimate.  Norman Finkelstein’s pro-terror political opinions are another matter altogether.</p>
<p><strong>Articles in Frontpage’s Collaborators series:</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="../2009/11/18/collaborators-in-the-war-against-the-jews-sara-roy/">Sarah Roy</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="../2009/12/04/2009/10/21/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-howard-zinn/">Howard Zinn</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="../2009/12/04/2009/11/18/2009/10/16/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-joel-beinin-%E2%80%93-by-steven-plaut/">Joel Beinin</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="../2009/12/04/2009/11/18/2009/10/14/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-mark-levine-%E2%80%93-by-steven-plaut/">Mark LeVine</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="../2009/12/04/2009/11/18/2009/10/13/collaborators-in-the-campus-war-against-israel-and-the-jews-neve-gordon-by-john-perazzo/">Neve Gordon</a><br />
</strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36406">Norman Finkelstein</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36238">Tony Judt</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36178">Michael Lerner</a></strong></p>
<p><strong><a href="http://97.74.65.51/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=36028"><strong>Marc H. Ellis</strong></a></strong></p>
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