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Moses would cry if he read "Voices from the Rubble" [Feb. 9]. Moses would cry for the three little Palestinian girls shot by Israeli soldiers who were on a candy break. Moses would cry for the parents and grandparents unable to help their children. Moses would cry for the soldiers so steeped in a national bunker mentality that they no longer value the lives of Palestinian civilians. Moses would cry for his people, who have lost sight of the biblical guideline on proportionate retaliation: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth." Lowell Klessig, AMHERST JUNCTION...
...FULL FRONTAL Total body contact, heart-to-heart embrace and firm squeeze. For parents, children and good friends...
...unable to make judgments for themselves, and we have to make some judgments, right or wrong. And so I think we've done the right thing in saying sometimes, for whatever reason it is, whether it's faith or psychopathology or whatever, people who have responsibility for minor children don't make right decisions, are not fit to make right decisions --I don't care why--and the state has an interest in preserving that life...
With books tucked neatly on the shelves and a comfy purple-dragon rug in a back-corner nook, the library at San Diego's Willard B. Hage Elementary School is the perfect place for children to fall in love with reading. Since the start of the school year, however, the library has been off-limits to students, who get to go there only when (already overworked) teachers can escort them and handle the record-keeping. "With all of the cutbacks we've had in the last few years, the district can't pay for someone to help check out books...
Where will those families go? And whose school districts can afford to absorb their children? In California, school officials are expecting to receive upwards of $8 billion over two years from the federal stimulus. While this money would enable districts to address some of their most pressing needs, John Mockler, an education-funding specialist in Sacramento, says, "It's not a panacea." In the long term, Mockler says, states need to come up with new funding sources to support classroom instruction and let teachers do what they were hired to do - teach...