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...Asking someone involved in homeschooling whether it stunts children's social growth elicits much eye rolling, and a sigh-laden explanation of where you've gone wrong. It's all about false assumptions. You think homeschooled children never meet other kids? They meet them all the time, they protest - at ballet class, at church, on excursions arranged by and for homeschoolers. You think children mingle widely at school? School culture virtually precludes any but the most cursory contacts between children of different ages. You think all children are happy at school? Many spend years feeling anxious and excluded, victims...
...shocker in the varsity race was the only loss of the day for Harvard, which claimed open water victories in the second varsity, varsity four, and novice eight races. The second varsity, composed primarily of sophomores from last year’s first freshman boat, downed a similarly sophomore-laden Brown second boat. Last year, Brown’s freshman eight took home Sprints gold to the Crimson’s bronze, though Harvard claimed silver at the IRAs in June.“The guys we were racing was mostly the freshman boat from last year...
...Olmert: Don't expect us to release the money to the Palestinian government. This is a terrorist government and there's no way I can be sure that the money I release will go to the needs you want them for. They might go for financing terror - to Bin Laden, to Hezbollah - I have no idea. If we release the money it will not go through the Palestinian administration...
Dershowitz charges that Finkelstein blamed the U.S. for the Sept. 11 attacks. “[W]e [the U.S.] deserve the problem on our hands because some things Bin Laden says are true,” Dershowitz quotes Finkelstein as having said. Dershowitz says the quote comes from website counterpunch.org, which is heavily critical of Israel and which posted an interview with Finkelstein in December...
According to the website, Finkelstein told counterpunch.org: “Frankly, part of me says—even though everything since September 11 has been a nightmare, ‘you know what, we deserve the problem on our hands because some things Bin Laden says are true’. One of the things he said on that last tape was that ‘until we live in security, you’re not going to live in security’, and there is a certain amount of rightness in that...