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...best friend while playing with a pen knife at school--will return to his school district next fall because, Corella says, "he's a strong A student with no behavior problems, and his offense was minor." When a student has serious anger problems, however, "it's a big red flag," she says. "That kid's probably better off with us because zero tolerance will eat him alive...
...These days Nero can't help but reflect on the similarities between ancient Rome and modern America. "We had Pax Romana, now there's Pax Americana," Ustinov says. "The empires are very close to each other - the eagle, the legions, the respect for the flag. That's why Americans make the best Roman films." American hegemony is just one of a multitude of topics on which Ustinov is happy to expound. The British-born son of a French mother and a half-German, half-Russian father (who had an Ethiopian grandmother to boot), his cosmopolitan origins and a lifetime...
...everybody gets above-average treatment, we simply redefine the level of service. Forced equalization reduces incentives to excel. As for security searches, if Keillor wants to encourage passengers to submit meekly to them, he ought to make a convincing argument instead of waving the overused Sept. 11 flag. It's like dabbing your eyes when there are no tears. THERESA LONG Williamsburg...
...many cases have forgotten the black masses, expected to rely heavily on the black voter turnout in this election. In trouble, they hoped to turn to their staple of Democratic meat: black people. And why wouldn’t a region festering with support for the Confederate flag (i.e., Georgia with the triumph of Governor-elect Sonny Purdue) want anything else but to feast on that meat...
...reluctantly support a war if it comes, but he is embarrassed that the Administration has been so aggressive in pushing for it. "The Administration seems to be grabbing for a reason," he says. "My biggest concern is that we seem to think...everybody in Iraq will wave a U.S. flag and say thanks for liberating us. But we've encouraged more hostility [in Iraq] than we're aware...