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...starting to relive the East Timor tragedy. Separatist sentiment is building in the seaside towns, the jungle up-country and rice-growing villages. In reaction, the military has revived its time-honored strategy of slash and burn. On the wall of a torched house in Rantau Pangang, a riverine settlement on the main north-south highway, is a date daubed in paint: 25/3/2001. That was the day police and army units arrived in trucks to shoot six villagers, apparently randomly, and burn down most of the village. "There was no reason for any of this," mutters Yusman, a grizzled shopkeeper...
Over the past weeks, two new controversies have arisen in the old debate over the SAT’s place in the college admissions process. Executives at several major corporations have urged college presidents to de-emphasize the SAT. A court settlement concerning provisions for students with disabilities also threatens to further reduce the accuracy of an measure that is already skewed. Given these challenges, schools should act now to reduce their reliance on a test that allows wealth to obscure aptitude...
...students with disabilities. Until now, such students have been offered untimed tests, but their scores have been flagged to note the change. However, students with disabilities have challenged the flagging of other tests administered by the Educational Testing Service as discriminatory, and under the terms of a court settlement, such scores will no longer be flagged. It seems only a matter of time before the SAT meets a similar fate...
...bills introduced to the Mass. Legislature call for stronger measures for collecting judgments after settlement, an increase in the dollar limit for small claims cases and limits on how many cases a corporation may file in a year...
...month-old Shalhevet Pass, the daughter of Jewish settlers in the mostly Palestinian city of Hebron, who died last month when a sniper put a bullet, apparently intentionally, through her head. Last week, one-year-old Ariel Yered was critically wounded in a Palestinian mortar attack on the Atzmona settlement in the Gaza Strip. Almost 400 Palestinians and 65 Israelis have died since last fall, when peace negotiations imploded over the question of Jerusalem's status...