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With its 566-year heritage and its renowned commitment to excellence and breeding, Eton College is changing its ways to prepare boys for success in a more democratic and globalized world. Despite the revisions the venerable academy is making to its lesson plans, readers complained that the school is still too exclusionary...
...bloodshed at Haditha is on the hands of President George W. Bush. The full horror of the Iraq war is beginning to emerge. Could Haditha be just the tip of the iceberg? The tragic war in Iraq should serve as a lesson to the U.S.: Never again should you elect as President a person who makes unilateral and rash decisions, one who acts first and thinks later. Peter Karanja Nairobi...
...When men and women are sent into unjustifiable wars, when soldiers see their buddies get blown to pieces for no good reason, when there is a vacuum in moral leadership, then decent people become capable of horrific acts. We thought we learned this painful lesson in Vietnam, but we are sadly seeing history repeated in Iraq. The few bad eggs are not the brave men and women in the combat zones of Iraq but the cowardly men and women occupying the White House. Steven Lockton Irvine, California...
...comes from a lesson rooted in the Bible," Blagojevich wrote in an editorial after the Illinois General Assembly passed a proposal for the program in November. "If it's OK for those of us in politics and government - those of us who make the rules - to have health care for our kids, then it's only right that we give every parent a way to make sure that their kids have health insurance...
...with her argument that humility is a basic ingredient of a spiritual life. No matter how often he invokes Scripture, Enron's founder, Ken Lay, will never learn that stealing is wrong until he finds some of that elusive characteristic. But there is hope: some people learn that valuable lesson in prison. Gary Roe Santa Cruz, California...