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...Cumberland Valley High School in Mechanicsburg, Pa., who got two-thirds of his classmates to sign a petition against a new policy of random Breathalyzer tests at dances. The school board rejected their pleas before the May 12 prom, but Graf will fight on. "Safety is a big concern," he says, "but at what expense to our constitutional rights...
Essayist Caitlin Flanagan argued that "the Democratic Party is losing the housewife vote" [May 8]. As a Democrat and a churchgoing wife and full-time mother, I can relate to Flanagan's frustration. To me, Democrats stand for equality, compassion for the poor, concern for the environment and a host of other traditional moral values. But Republicans have made opposition to abortion and gay marriage the moral high ground, even as they start wars, torture prisoners, give to the rich, take from the poor and promote the death penalty. Until the Democrats embrace the traditional moral values inherent in their...
...country is thrown into confusion and grief, cab driver Ganga is confronted with a more personal upheaval?learning that his brother is gay. In Supreme Pronouncements, another story, when the student organizer Suresh is thrown in jail for writing a provocative editorial about a government contract, his biggest concern is not his cause or his safety, but discovering that his cellmate was his new girlfriend's old flame. In A Refugee, a young woman moves from the countryside to the capital after Maoists murder her husband. That violent act underpins the story. "It was hard to believe that this country...
...already less competent students. He found that the extra time improved the grades of students already earning As and Bs, but that coursework done after reading period resulted in lowered grades for the lowly D and E earners. Munro concluded that “as Government 17a is concerned there is ground for the conclusion that the profitableness of the reading period is almost exactly proportioned to the quality of the student.”Time Abused?Munro was a little blunter than the average professor today, but his sentiments regarding the potential for reading period abuse have stuck around...
...fragility of peace. "As a citizen who lived with Préval through the past, I look at him with a question mark. Since he was declared the winner, so far so good," Sassine says cautiously. "But the burden of proof is on him. My main concern? Security, security, security...