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...punished. "Even in jail, kids want their candy bars, their pillows and pajamas," says lawyer Mones. "They wonder where their cheeseburgers are." It's also crucial to realize these kids will get out someday. "The important thing to do is not to trash these kids," says Carl Bell, "with disregard for their need for attachment, school, mental health evaluation and support...
Rather than stick to traditional financial-aid formulas that consider the value of your home, cars and other assets, these colleges will provide more grants and disregard at least $90,000 of income in calculating need. For a family earning $65,000 with college savings of $20,000, that could equal $3,500 more in grants than was possible under the old formula. Families with an annual income of less than $40,000 will receive substantially more in grant aid. "This new formula answers a question schools have heard middle-class students asking," says Tim McDonough of the American Council...
Kids have had access to guns in America since the Mayflower, and for hundreds of years that was not a problem. What has changed to create the senseless, willful disregard of people and property? Whether we have grown dependent on drugs or handouts, individual responsibility is going the way of dinosaurs, and it's taking America with it. ALAN HILLS Los Gatos, Calif...
...Dole steps up to the podium for his acceptance speech at the Republican Convention. He looks lean and hungry, the faithful are cheering, so midway through the speech, Dole stares into the cameras and decides to uncork. "To the teachers' unions, I say, when I am President, I will disregard your political power," he bellows. "If education were a war, you would be losing it." Dole says he is not talking "to the teachers, but to the unions," but it doesn't matter. Democrats seize on Dole's screed and cast him as a rabid teacher hater, an enemy...
Warning that disregard for human rights is undermining the Middle East peace process, Palestinian lawyer and founder of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights Raji Sourani accused both Israel and the Palestinian Authority of violating civil rights in a somber speech Sunday afternoon at the Unitarian Church in Harvard Square...