Word: federation
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...were growing up in South Dakota. I vividly remember looking at her--this beautiful young woman walking in the surf--and thinking, "This is really something special. Our lives have changed, and they will never be the same." And they certainly never have been. --As told to Laura Koss-Feder...
...With reporting by Melissa August/Washington, Barbara Burgower-Hordern/Houston, Daren Fonda and Jyoti Thottam/New York, Laura Koss-Feder/Oceanside, Betsy Rubiner/Des Moines, Mary Sutter/Miami and Leslie Whitaker/Chicago
...told to Laura Koss-Feder...
...moments of crisis, school administrators draw up action plans--snow-emergency routes, fire-safety drills and, most recently, school-shooting lockdowns. Last week Scott Feder, principal of Dutch Neck Elementary School in Princeton Junction, N.J., installed a three-part "grieving plan" to console a kindergartner whose father never came home from work Sept. 11. There was only one problem. Though the newspaper and other students reported the man had perished, the family was still holding out hope. The young girl had been told that "Daddy's going to be home very late...
...Civil War was fought in and where Vietnam is on the map. Her public school friends may know how many slaves Jefferson and Washington owned, but my daughter understands the revolutionary ideas--limiting government powers, assertion of individual freedom and natural rights--that these men fought for. H. JACK FEDER Austin, Texas...