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Licensed to a French journalist by the New York-based Topps company, which launched their American forebears in 1985, Les Crados are suddenly de rigueur among French schoolchildren. Even though they were banned in some schools across the country within two months after their release in January, some 12 million packs have been sold at 40 cents each. But the real grossing-out has taken place among legions of appalled grownups. Les Crados have even come to the attention of Premier Michel Rocard, who said he was "astounded." The National Institute for Consumers' Affairs has been asked to investigate...
...mocking history. When the framers of the Constitution provided Americans with the right to bear arms, they could hardly have imagined the development of high-powered semiautomatic weapons capable of firing more than 30 rounds in a clip. The slaughter last January of five Stockton, Calif., schoolchildren by a psychopath wielding an imitation AK-47 assault rifle awakened the public to the danger of these paramilitary weapons. Police have complained of being outgunned by drug dealers with Uzis and AR- 15s. Urban emergency rooms have started resembling MASH units, with doctors treating the sort of huge gunshot wounds once seen...
McGrath also said Harvard should consider providing scholarships to Cambridge schoolchildren...
...such legitimate proposal, now under illegimate attack. Black members of the Boston School Committee and the Boston chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) alleged last week the plan is tantamount to resegregation and is not in the best interests of minority schoolchildren. They may file a lawsuit against the school system to block the proposal's implementation...
...tyrannies that slowly escalate to mutilation and death. But her squabbling adults have little more personality than Punch and Judy, and their maltreated daughter is a mere shadow. Waverly Place takes 294 pages to express what W.H. Auden did in a quatrain: "I and the public know/ What all schoolchildren learn,/ Those to whom evil is done/ Do evil in return...