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...even take the steps to formally consider barring MCI from government contracts until June - a year after the first revelations that the company had misrepresented its true financial condition by $11 billion through accounting fraud - the largest fraud in corporate history. The delay prompted questions on Capitol Hill, where lobbyists from the White House as well as former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani's firm were dispatched to head off a measure earlier this month that would have barred the company from future contracts. The measure was watered down and then attached to an appropriations bill which had not yet passed...
...anything, the delay of promised peacekeeping forces appears to have encouraged more fighting. Despite cease-fire agreements, rebel groups have launched repeated offensives to capture the capital and the second city, Buchanan, over the past three weeks, leaving hundreds of civilians dead in the ensuing battles. The goal is to create facts on the ground before the peacekeepers arrive - the two rebel groups already control 80 percent of Liberia, and if they can defeat Taylor's forces in the capital before ECOWAS arrives, the peacekeepers' role will simply involve overseeing and guaranteeing the transition to a new government. Some African...
...further delay has become untenable, in the face of the mounting civilian death toll and the burgeoning humanitarian crisis. The undisciplined young fighters wildly trading fire on the capital's streets may have rendered the peacekeeping mission far more difficult. It's one thing putting troops in between two armies that have agreed on a cease-fire; quite another when their job is to fight their way in and impose a truce on both - and to do so as the city's food and drinking water supplies dwindle and cholera becomes a real threat. The most immediate cause cited...
...believe that more boys than girls are dyslexic. Wrong again. Boys are just more likely to get noticed because they often vent their frustration by acting out. You may think that dyslexia can be outgrown. This is perhaps the most damaging myth, because it leads parents to delay seeking the extra instruction needed to keep their children from falling further behind. "The majority of students who get identified with learning disorders get identified between the ages of 11 and 17," says Robert Pasternack, assistant secretary for Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. "And that's too late." They can still learn...
Ideally, all children should be screened in kindergarten--to minimize educational delay and preserve self-confidence. How do you know someone has dyslexia before he or she has learned to read? Certain behaviors--like trouble rhyming words--are good clues that something is amiss. Later you may notice that your child is memorizing books rather than reading them. A kindergarten teacher's observation that reading isn't clicking with your son or daughter should be a call to action...