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...Littleton, Colo. They elected not to participate because they stay out of public affairs, an Administration official said. Other recent school shootings terrorized pupils in Wisconsin and Colorado. On Monday, as officials were making final preparations for the conference, a 13-year-old in a trench coat shot an assault rifle into the ceiling of his Missouri middle school...
...made his political name as chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children. "Now, more than ever," Foley wrote with Senator Orrin Hatch in the Washington Times last year, "we need to stand together and unite cities, communities and states in the effort to stop the assault on America's children...
...assault on our children: that's a consensus builder if ever there was one. Dateline's targets deserve to be put away, and programs like it do a service by alerting parents to threats. And last week, which also saw the schoolhouse murders of five Amish girls by a stranger who evidently planned to rape his victims, the media could be forgiven its wall-to-wall weirdo watch. The problem is proportion. Strangers make up 7% of child molesters; the vast majority are family members. But you wouldn't know it from watching TV. When stranger predators are everywhere...
...knows that better than the Republicans, who from Richard Nixon through the Willie Horton episode have campaigned as the law-and-order party. Now they face a backlash from the same culture of fear and suspicion they benefited from before. Casting yourself as the answer to an "assault" on children isn't just a means of getting votes; it can also justify power grabs. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales argued last month before a Senate committee that Internet service providers should be required to keep a massive database of their clients' activity, ostensibly to track down child pornography. In 2002, Foley...
...atmosphere of moral rigidity governs much of campus life. I.J.T. members have been known to physically assault students for drinking, flirting or kissing on campus. "We are compelled by our religion to use force if we witness immoral public behavior," says Naveed. "If I see someone doing something wrong, I can stop him and the I.J.T. will support me." Threats of a public reprimand or allegations of immoral behavior are enough to keep most students toeing the I.J.T. line. There is no university regulation segregating men from women in the dining halls, but students know that mingling is taboo...