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...begin. "I thought it was Orwellian," says Karlsberger, a 43-year-old hotel manager in Williams, Ariz. "I find it hard to believe that someone, someday, won't find a way to compromise the information on my child's fingerprint." He rallied dozens of parents and the American Civil Liberties union to derail the school's plan. Now Tom McCraley, the 760-student school district's superintendent, says that before considering finger scanning, "I'd want to make sure parents had a full understanding about...
...boards; Undergraduate Council President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, representing the student body; University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71, on behalf of higher education; and 92-year-old historian John Hope Franklin, in honor of Faust’s academic training as a Civil War historian...
...thousands on Monday in the commercial capital of Rangoon, their sandal-shod feet slapping through the rain alongside the monks' bare feet. Participation by these citizens - many of whom are fed up with the economic hardships caused by the ruling generals' inept governance - has helped make this display of civil disobedience the largest mass movement in Burma in nearly two decades...
...back and wait. When we withdraw soldiers, the counterinsurgents and terrorists can resume their attacks. We all know that there are thousands of young men who are ready to martyr themselves so they can enter paradise. And if we ever completely pull out of Iraq, corruption and civil war will continue until the country inevitably becomes another Iran. Let's declare victory now and get the hell out! John J. Grimes, Watertown, Massachusetts...
...President George W. Bush rightly invoked the fiasco that ensued after the U.S. pulled out of Vietnam. If we leave Iraq within the next year, there will be a civil war. If we leave Iraq in four years, there will be a civil war. The difference will be in the number of American troops who will die in delaying the inevitable. Joseph A. Rihn Jr., Lititz, Pennsylvania...