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...homelands. "We argued, hassled one another, agreed on some topics and decided we would never agree on others," says Gadi Maayan, 17, who will join Israel's army in six months. "If I am a guard at a checkpoint, and a pregnant Palestinian woman comes up, I would probably bend the rules now to let her pass...
Person of the Week BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM The hopes of the blessed isle rested on his spiky mohawk and healed foot?and David Beckham delivered. The English captain punched in a penalty kick to secure England's 1-0 victory over Argentina. Bookies immediately shortened the odds against the Brits...
...hearings. Another tactic popular among advocates is to gather a district's discipline statistics--which are collected by the government and can be obtained by filing a Freedom of Information Act request--and prepare self-published reports for local news broadcasts. After enough badgering, some districts have begun to bend their discipline codes. Last fall Chicago public-schools chief Arne Duncan directed principals to stop handing out suspensions for picayune infractions like "gum chewing" and reserve the punishment for violent offenses. The district is working with local activists and civil rights attorneys to launch a program allowing students...
...murder is the ultimate propaganda tool - the message to Americans is that they will not be safe as long as their government maintains a presence in Muslim lands; and al-Qaeda is telling the Muslim world that despite America's power, it is not invulnerable and that Muslims can bend it to their will by rallying to bin Laden's 'jihad...
...think a community like this one has to bend over backwards to be prepared to support the value of free speech and to recognize that individuals will hold views that will be disturbing and troubling to others,” Summers said...