UNOFFICIAL ENGLISH
In a major defeat for the official English movement, the Supreme Court refused to take up a case involving Arizona's official English law on Monday. The state supreme court had previously ruled the law unconstitutional.

Arizona's law, passed by a narrow majority in 1988, was considered one of the finest in the country by pro-English activists. "This was the best state official English law ever passed," said Jim Boulet of English First.

The law contained a unique citizen enforcement mechanism, which allowed state residents to go to court on its behalf instead of waiting for the government to take action--something the career politicians are loathe to do. California, for instance, passed an official English law in 1986. If the state had bothered to enforce it, Proposition 227 banning bilingual education last year might not have been necessary.

The Arizona case has been tied up in legal wrangling for years, and a federal challenge to the law actually worked its way up to the Supreme Court two years ago. But the Justices ruled it moot.

NEVER SAY LIE
In a forthcoming book, Middlebury College anthropologist David Stoll demonstrates beyond any reasonable doubt that Guatemalan political activist and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Rigoberta Menchu's autobiography ("I, Rigoberta Menchu") has about as much truth in it as a Clinton deposition.

So have university professors had second thoughts about assigning the left-wing tract in class? Of course not. "Whether the book is true or not, I don't care," said Marjorie Agosin of Wellesley College, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education.

The Chronicle also notes that "Many scholars have accused Mr. Stoll of conducting a 'Kenneth Starr-style' investigation."

Does that mean we get to impeach Rigoberta Menchu?