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...Legacy of Donald Rumsfeld Like Joe Klein, I don't approve of the use of torture [Jan. 19]. But when Klein states, "It would be interesting, just for the fun and justice of it, to subject Rumsfeld to four hours in a stress position," it sounds as though Klein, if he had been responsible for gathering information to protect millions of Americans, would have made the same choices Rumsfeld did. Ben Courtney, SELINSGROVE...
...Jan. 28 News article, "Bill Aims To Increase Transparency," incorrectly stated that David F. Torchiana, chairman and CEO of the Mass. General Physicians Organization, had criticized a bill sponsored by Senator Charles E. Grassley for not requiring itemization of payments and for having holes in its provisions. In fact, Torchiana generally praised the bill and his comments about the potential pitfalls of industry disclosing payments to physicians was directed at recent instances of industry disclosure and not specifically at Grassley's legislation...
...Journal had published an opinion piece on Jan. 2 in which Dershowitz, who is one of Israel’s most prominent defenders, supported Israel’s military actions in Gaza...
...grading practices; chief among their complaints is that a score of 93% gets recorded as a lowly B+. After forming an official protest group called Fairgrade last year and goading the school board into voting on whether to ease the standards, parents marshaled 10,000 signatures online and on Jan. 22 gathered nearly 500 supporters to help plead their case. After two hours of debate, the school board passed a resolution, a move critics consider a defeat in the war on grade inflation. (Read about students getting paid for good grades...
...December when its members disagreed with how the school board characterized the results.) Based on the findings released in early January - which showed that changing the scale would slightly boost GPAs but was inconclusive about whether it would help students get into better colleges - the school board on Jan. 22 agreed to start using a higher premium for tough courses and to adopt a new variant of a 10-point grading scale...