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...education, but many say the big problem is not more money or vouchers or class size; rather it is lazy or indifferent or overworked parents who can't meet with a teacher or help with homework. Progress on race comes in the most intimate gestures: Last December, as Elnora Littleton in Rosedale, Miss., tells it, she became the first black woman in those parts ever to preach at a white man's funeral. In this part of the country, she says, it is a milestone worth noting. "I made history," she says...
DIED. GREG BARNES, 17, Columbine High School basketball star who lived through last year's bloodbath; by a suicide hanging; in Littleton, Colo. Friends said he'd shown no signs of trouble...
...wheels of justice take us all some strange places. The Littleton fire fighters who made the lengthy training video, which has been shown to more than 80 rescue teams in the U.S. and Canada, never intended for the material to be shown to the public. But last week a judge ordered the tapes released to the victims' families who are suing Jefferson County for mishandling the rescue. Although fire officials and the sheriff's department strongly opposed public distribution of the video, the county attorney made the tapes available to individuals and news organizations to avoid additional lawsuits...
...video episode is a prime example of that complexity; as is the case with most news stories, the facts are considerably more shaded than the headlines. After all, the tape was crafted not by Sheriff Stone's staff, but by a member of the Littleton Fire Department - the sheriff was merely acting as custodian until a judge ruled that the tape be handed over to six of the victims' families, who had sued for its release as part of their efforts to prove that authorities mishandled the rescue and failed to heed warnings of the rampage. The Jefferson County...
...Littleton resident Conor K. Gaughan '02 recalls the same painful "uncertainty" that Wahl says he felt when he first heard of the Columbine shooting...