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This characterization is heavily biased, and it badly confuses cause and effect. When rockets and mortars are launched over a sovereign nation's borders against innocent civilians, a military reaction is entirely proper (according to U.N. Charter Art. 51), and need not be limited to a “proportionate” response. The attack, not the retaliation, is the “cause” of the escalation...
...villages in the north of the country--as servants for a few dollars a day. One morning last week, 30 girls in dresses or skirts and freshly laundered shirts sat chatting on two wooden benches in front of the building. Next to them a young man held a laminated charter of "rules" for hiring the girls. "I don't recognize this as African," says Constance Yai, a former Ivory Coast minister of family and social affairs who is now president of the private Ivorian Association for Women's Rights. "It's commerce pure and simple...
...Others have fond memories of childhood summers spent at the area's two dozen-plus camps and see it as a nostalgic family retreat. Tom Fatjo, the multimillionaire founder of Waste Corp. of America, fell in love with the Guadalupe River at age 5. Now he flies in by charter jet from Houston to his 200-acre ranch outside Kerrville and brings along his four kids, ages 3 to 11, to hunt, fish and swim on holidays. Fatjo watches over his herd of 60 axis deer and whitetail deer from the luxury of his truck or golf cart...
Creating a charter school is no automatic solution. A recent New York Times article noted that charter schools do not, simply by nature of being charter schools, improve education. When subjected to the same testing as public schools, pass rates for fourth graders in Michigan on math and reading tests were lower in charter schools than in traditional public schools. Likewise, a lower percentage of Texas charter school students passed the statewide graduation tests. Indeed, Texas has called for a moratorium on new charter schools until more information about academic performance can be gathered...
Admittedly, some charter schools do have their success stories. Yet even the state which created the first charter schools, Minnesota, has called states to create an oversight institution. Results of such charter schools as an institution are uncertain. As Paul T. Hill, a professor at the University of Washington, told The Times, “Only if there’s a sexual harassment case do the states know something’s wrong, but as for are students doing worse or better, they haven’t got a clue.” Charter schools do not, then, operate...