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...Jenkins Saga TIME excerpted the autobiography of Charles Robert Jenkins, the U.S. Army sergeant who deserted while serving in South Korea and spent 40 years in North Korea until the Japanese government negotiated his departure in 2004 [Oct. 24]. I am a U.S. citizen living in Japan, and I don't understand why Jenkins' detractors, presumably patriotic Americans, who wrote letters to TIME [Nov. 21] would second-guess the U.S. Army's decision to allow Jenkins to live as a free man in Japan. Jenkins left North Korea believing that he would spend the rest of his life...
...Graduate School of Education (GSE) has spearheaded a program through which she gave Boston middle-school students the opportunity to help pick their new superintendent of schools. Natasha J. London-Thompson, who plans to earn her degree in education policy and management in June 2006, collaborated with Citizen Schools, a Boston-based organization that manages after-school programs aiming to educate and empower youth. London-Thompson led a project that videotaped sixth graders at William Barton Rogers Middle School in Hyde Park as they spoke about their ideal superintendent. The students also learned about school administration issues and eventually interviewed...
...exists today as a grisly spectacle meant to soothe the retributive minds of a majority of Americans as much as it does to deter potential violent criminals from committing crimes. But punishment should not be tailored to the electorate. Rather it should follow the same moral norms that every citizen of the United States is expected to follow—moral norms that prohibit killing except in self-defense. As Stanley Williams reportedly tried to help the technician deliver his own lethal injection, it can hardly be argued that the state believed Williams to be an imminent danger. With...
After Thurmond, the next person in the order of succession would be the secretary of state, who at the time was Madeline Albright. But Albright, a Czech immigrant, was born in Prague, and Article II of the Constitution requires the president to be a “natural born Citizen...
...center receives 200,000 calls that are not connected to any emergency. This is when the command center takes on the role of a veritable citywide switchboard—an entity that receives concerns and inquiries, such as a citizen wanting to reach the police chief, and redirects them to the appropriate city agency...