Scholastic Update articles from September 1996

Scholastic Update archives from September 1996

The world's hardest job.(job of the United States president)(includes related article on job description of the president)(Cover Story)
September 6, 1996... It's 6 a.m. in the White House, and there's no time for breakfast. Your National Security Adviser is waiting in the West Wing to brief you on the crisis in Bosnia. You gazzle a cup of coffee and sign off on a budges proposal to be sent to...

Inside the White House.(features of the presidential house)
September 6, 1996... When a news report says "the White House said today," it doesn't refer to a talking building in Washington, D.C. The White House has come to stand for the Presidency and all its power, and is recognized around the world as a symbol of the U.S....

The presidential puzzle.(good and bad qualities in presidents)
September 6, 1996... There's room on Mount Rushmore to honor only four of our greatest Presidents: Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt. But if the famous South Dakota monument were being rechiseled today--70 years and 13 Presidents later--which...

A presidential gallery: a guide to two centuries of leadership.(facts on past US presidents)
September 6, 1996... I solemnly swear to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States...." Whether it is Bill Clinton or Bob Dole who raises his hand to take the Presidential Oath of Office next January, he will join a select group of men who...

The first lady: homemaker or policy-maker.(Hillary Clinton and role of president's wife)(includes related article on women presidency)
September 6, 1996... When President Clinton wanted to reform America's ailing health-care system, he gave the job to his most trusted adviser--his wife. For more than a year, Hillary Rodham Clinton led a Presidential task force on health care. Its job was to figure...

And forever free?(the different purposes of the United States Civil War)
September 6, 1996... In early summer 1862, morale among the North's Union troops and their Commander in Chief, President Abraham Lincoln, reached rock bottom. The Union Army had suffered a series of shocking defeats by Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson. Just...

Tension in the Koreas.(economic collapse in North Korea)
September 6, 1996... If you want to know how the East Asian nation of North Korea is doing, just ask its children. In one city that a United Nations (UN) official visited last winter, students sat in unheated classrooms where temperatures regularly plummeted...

Hope and fear. (election of Benjamin Netanyahu as Israel's prime minister influences Middle East peace process)(includes related article on US soldiers in the Middle East)
September 20, 1996... Just when peace finally seemed to be breaking out in the Middle East, violence and mistrust have resumed. Is there still hope, or can centuries of fear and hatred never be put to rest? It is Wednesday, May 29, the night of the most important...

Voices of the future. (Israeli and Palestinian teenagers discuss their perceptions of the conflict between Arabs and Jews)(Cover Story)
September 20, 1996... JERUSALEM--Israelis and Palestinians have fought each other for generations. These are people who grow up confronted with violence and hatred, who have had friends and relatives killed, who are taught from childhood what the other side has done...

The Middle East: shaped by conflict. (changes in Palestine's and Israel's boundaries since 1920)(Cover Story)
September 20, 1996... In the Middle East, national borders have always shifted through violence. Now, the map of the region is being reddrawn again--this time through diplomacy. Here's the background on this volatile region and a country-by-country look at the...

...And justice for all. (Supreme Court individual rights cases)
September 20, 1996... How far should the government go to protect the rights of individuals? Should we pass laws to protect gays against fob discrimination? Give minority students preference in college admissions? Allow women to attend all-male schools? Or do these...

Troubled on the Sea Islands. (freed slaves on South Carolina's and Georgia's Sea Islands)
September 20, 1996... On November 7, 1861, Union gunboats sailed into the Sea Islands off the coast of South Carolina and Georgia, and opened fire on Confederate army fortifications. The islands' white slave owners fled to the mainland in a panic, leaving meals...

Troubled times in Northern Ireland. (ceasefire broken)
September 20, 1996... On February 9, 1996, at 5 p.m., a phone rang in the bustling news-room of a Dublin, Ireland, newspaper. The caller's message was short and deadly: Military operations against Great Britain will resume in two hours, said a man who claimed he was...