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Crossword For Release Saturday, August 18, 2018 Crossword Edited by Will Shortz No. 0714

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B y To b y S e l l s Edited by Will Shortz Cutting Back In

Court ruling allows some barbers to get back behind the chair.

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ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 123456 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 RAZZ P I ZZA F I ZZ ALOE OBEAH OREO GLOB P I ECE YORE N I MRODS HA V ENO T ANS AR I DORME R ROO E V E NNOW I S O ONUS A LOOF SK I P KE TCH END BEENE HOWGO E S I T WOR T H Y S E N S E D P E LOS I XGAME S A I DE ZZTOP DAL I GRAD KENDO A J AX EDGE I NU I T TONE DOER DOT ES EROS Elias Zarate is a good barber, by several accounts, and now he can be one. A two-year court battle ended last week with a decision that struck down an education requirement for barbers in state law and cleared the way for Zarate to, once again, cut hair in Memphis. Zarate, represented by the Beacon Center, a free-market advocacy group, argued that barbers do not need a high school diploma to get a barber’s license, especially since cosmetologists only need two years of high school. cal solutions, and the use of straight razors satis es the court that the material makes public safety a priority.” The law requiring a high school diploma for barbers was passed in 2015, though not many took notice of it then, according to the Beacon Center. Lawmakers reviewed the law in 2018 but decided to keep it, arguing then that it encouraged Tennesseans to stay in school. Beacon argued that the law “only helps those who already are barbers by making it harder to become one.” “Barbers cut hair,” reads a Beacon blog post about the case. “ ey do not need to understand algebra II or  e Great Gatsby. Requiring barbers to graduate high school before working is irrational, and hurts people who are perfectly capable of becoming barbers but otherwise do not have a great number of career paths as stable and 20 22 23 extremes in an orbit CD follower Symbol of change, in math Picks 35 36 39 40 41 Decline Stock letters Ancient city rediscovered in 1870 Blackballs Royal 1 2 3 DOWN “Hummina hummina!” Onetime Ebert partner Sources of some tremors 39 42 46 50 52 Memphian Elias Zarate can return as BEACON CENTER OF TENNESSEE 40 43 44 47 48 49 51 rewarding as barbering.” One of those people was Zarate. He attended school until the 12th grade, when his grandparents could no longer care for his two younger siblings. He dropped out to care for them, working odd jobs and honing his skills as a barber. “I was given the chance to work at this luxury shop Downtown,” Zarate said. “ ings were going great. It was 24 Pick Catherine 4 “Mrs. ___ Goes a barber a er a two-year court battle. a dream come true. I was planning for my future. I was saving up some money 6 August 13-19, 2020 26 First pope to be called “the Great” 42 “Duck ___” (classic Warner Bros. short) to Paris” (Paul Gallico novel) 5 A bushelful 6 See 7-Down 7 With 6-Down, what may follow Indiana or Illinois 8 Like the best streams? 17 Up to this point 21 Source of guiding principles 24 Ova, e.g. 25 Becomes settled in a new 30 Make more palatable 31 Give up 33 Material 34 Style of Southern hip-hop 35 Things drawn by eccentric PUZZLE BY KAMERON AUSTIN COLLINS ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE RAZZ P I ZZA F I ZZ ALOE OBEAH OREO GLOB P I ECE YORE N I MRODS HA V ENO T ANS AR I DORME R ROO E V E NNOW I S O COMMUTE BY CARPOOL OR VANPOOL FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.SHELBYTNHEALTH.COM Anne C. Martin, judge of Part II of the Chancery Court of Davidson County, concluded the academic achievement requirement is “unconstitutional, unlawful, and unenforceable.” She noted that many of the arguments set forth by the Tennessee Board of Cosmetology and Barber Examiners were “not persuasive.” “ e board simply does not make a su cient tie between a high school degree and barbering,” Martin wrote in an order on August 8th. “Zarate, on the other hand, has provided the court with detailed information regarding the barber training program and licensure exam.  e program’s thorough coverage of all matters related to barbering, including sanitary requirements, chemifor my baby.” A state inspector showed up at his shop for a surprise inspection. Zarate did not know that he was sold a fraudulent barber’s license. He was  ned and told he could no longer work as a barber. At a disciplinary hearing, he was told he needed a high school diploma to get back to work. “You don’t need a high school diploma to be an emergency medical  rst responder,” said Braden Boucek, Beacon’s director of litigation. “You can literally restart the heart of a pulseless, non-breathing patient and have had no high school whatsoever. But to cut hair, you need a full four years of high school education, and that makes no sense.” ONUS A LOOF SK I P 9 Protection environment people