The Alamo template.
Byline: Gemma Cruz-Araneta IF your blood pressure shoots up whenever you encounter views in direct contrast to those you have long held dear, then brace yourself for this totally Mexican position. Generations of pro-Americans have wept through many Hollywood remakes of "Remember, the Alamo!" Tourist...

What's great about GRATs? Here's a look at how and why estate planners use grantor retained annuity trusts and what impact a new treasury department proposal might have on GRATs.
Given the uncertainty of the estate tax applicable exclusion amount--currently at $2 million this year and next, $3.5 million in 2009, unlimited in 2010, and $1 million in 2011 and thereafter--practitioners must use flexible planning techniques. One such technique is the grantor retained annuity trust ("GRAT'), which has grown...

GNA's story continues to be told ...
During 1907 ... * U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8,513 hands in 1 day * Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes first Native American U.S. Senator * First cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London * U.S. proclaims protectorate...

Race-based school assignments after Parents Involved in Community Schools: in one of the most talked-about and contentious rulings of its 2007 term, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the race-based plans for assigning students to public schools in Seattle and Louisville. But what kinds of plans pass constitutional muster?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] A sharply divided united states supreme Court decision has caused hundreds of school districts to study closely how they assign students to a particular primary or secondary school. (1) Based on a plurality vote, school districts may encounter constitutional difficulties if they expressly rely on...

Margaret A. Farley.
Margaret A. Farley, a Catholic nun and former Yale Divinity School ethicist, has been awarded the Grawemeyer Award in Religion by the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary and the University of Louisville. A member of the Sisters of Mercy, Farley received the award for her book Just Love: A Framework...

North/south, east/west; mapping Italianness on television.
9780739115763 North/south, east/west; mapping Italianness on television. Ardizzoni, Michela. Lexington Books 2007 178 pages $26.95 Paperback PN1992 Ardizzoni (communication, women's and gender studies, University of Louisville) focuses on the visual and...

Drugs in society; causes, concepts, and control, 5th ed.
9781593453220 Drugs in society; causes, concepts, and control, 5th ed. Lyman, Michael D. and Gary W. Potter. Anderson Publishing Co. 2007 550 pages $62.95 Paperback HV5825 This volume examines the drug...

Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Resounding Truth: Christian Wisdom in the World of Music. By Jeremy S. Begbie. (Baker Academic, 416 pp., $22.99 paperback.) Begbie's overall project is exploring the place of music in God's ecology of creation. Along the way, there is much to delight the mind and the...

Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God.
Quest for the Living God: Mapping Frontiers in the Theology of God. By Elizabeth A. Johnson. (Continuum, 256 pp., $24.95.) With her characteristic generosity, Johnson surveys a range of new theological currents in the doctrine of God, showing the context in which each idea arose, the theological reasoning behind...

Choreography opportunities.
WORKSHOPS Bates Dance Festival Bates College Lewiston, ME (207} 786-6381 http://abacus.bates.edu/dancefest/ Boulder Jazz Dance Workshop Boulder, CO (303) 449-0399 www.BoulderJazzDanceWorkshop.com Choreography/Performance Program Steps on Broadway, NYC ...