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...police take care of the public, not the individual. This is a great chance for people to defend themselves." One of the most potent advocates in the Texas debate has been Suzanna Gratia, who watched helplessly as a deranged gunman executed 23 people--including her parents--at a cafeteria in the town of Killeen four years ago. At the time, Gratia's own .38-cal. was lying in the trunk of her car because she was obeying the current concealed-weapons law, "the stupidest mistake of my entire life...
...Outside the House chamber, however, the picture was very different. Last week House Republicans were showing their first real signs of strain since their euphoric takeover in January. The media were filled with images of the President sharing tacos and corn nibblets with the clientele of an elementary-school cafeteria in Alexandria, Virginia�a direct hit in the public relations war over Republican plans to curb the growth of the school-lunch program. Wounded Republicans cried foul, with Congressman John Boehner of Ohio declaring, "There is no tactic too shameless, too low or too outrageous for this White House...
Silberstein says the administration's vision ofthe commons is "more of a Cafeteria...
Under the proposal, states could also use up to 20 percent of their allotted school lunch funds for other nutrition programs, making the cuts at the cafeteria level even more biting. States with a high number of poor people would suffer disproportionately from the budget trimming, an administrator in the Department of Agriculture has acknowledged...
...Chicago's ravaged West Side, the Nathan Goldblatt School stops serving breakfast at 8:45 a.m. But occasionally food-service manager Diane Spraggs needs to bend the rules. One day last week a skinny seventh-grade boy showed up in the cafeteria five minutes late. "When I told him that breakfast was over, he started to cry," Spraggs recalls. "We couldn't turn him away." At Goldblatt, 85% of the students qualify for free food. Kids being kids, many proudly insist they could do without. Spraggs knows otherwise. "[They] don't want to tell you that they're not getting...