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Back in February, a California court stunned the homeschooling families in the state when it declared that Mom or Dad had to have a credentialed teaching degree - or else their kids would be considered truants. The ruling affected approximately 200,000 children and raised protests from grass-roots activists all the way to the office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger...
...retrospect, I was very naive. My dad had said I was going to have problems over the song, but I really didn't think that I would. For me, it was just exciting because all of these stations in New York . . . were just all over the record. I thought the rest of the country would be, too. Then everybody started [sending] all this hate mail. To me it was just a song. I would hear Pete Seeger [discussing] the power of music to frighten people and to change people. Suddenly there I was in the middle...
...derring-don'ts. When the British government asks them to deliver a valuable document to Shanghai, they jump at the chance to throw off the sedate life and immerse themselves in the one thing that makes them feel alive: peril. It happens that Alex has taken up his dad's trade of amateur archaeologist / tomb raider. Guess what he's stumbled on: the key to unleashing the Emperor and his army...
Maureen Upfold was a child when she piped up with the classic existential query, "Dad, why are we here?" Behind the question was not a spiritual crisis but puzzlement over why so many pale-skinned people like herself dwelled in a country once solely occupied by Aborigines. "I think our ancestors were convicts," her father, Thorvald, told her. "Let's find out." So began an investigation that led Upfold first to some basic Australian history and then to the story of her great-great grandmother, Anne Dunne, an Irishwoman convicted of stealing linen and sentenced to seven years...
Your article mentions a girl who was assaulted, then consumed with guilt. Why was her attacker not raised to treat women respectfully? If a daughter can promise purity in Dad's presence, why can't a son? Lily Weiss, LAWRENCE...