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...recruiting based on qualified stats as opposed to quantified stats, the characters are likely to keep coming. But what it ultimately came down to was the fact that the A’s future in Oakland is uncertain. As “Super A” the banjo man told me, the front office is just waiting to move the team to Fremont. And though Fremont isn’t too far from Oakland, I’m still uncertain about uncertainty. But fidelity is something I value in a team; I like to root for a team that won?...
...seems like a scene from Oliver Twist - a young pupil being beaten by a 300-lb man wielding an inch-thick wooden paddle - but according to a new report by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union, nearly a quarter of a million children were subjected to corporal punishment in public schools in the U.S. during the 2006-2007 academic year. Based on 202 interviews with parents, students, teachers and administrators, and supplemented with data from the U.S. Department of Education, the report reveals how the spare-the-rod-spoil-the-child philosophy continues to rule thousands...
...issue that may dog Specter is health care. In two town-hall meetings this month, he has been confronted by angry constituents who claim the current proposal in Congress tramples on their constitutional rights. At a particularly turbulent meeting in Lebanon, Pa., on Tuesday, one man yelled that "One day God is going to judge you and the rest of your damn cronies on the Hill." But it's not clear that voter anger over health-care reform will help the challenger either - Sestak is himself an outspoken backer of President Obama's efforts to reform the health-care system...
...Abbas if the Israelis decide to release him from prison. Although Israel's Minister of Minority Affairs Avishay Braverman suggested this week that Barghouti be released to help strengthen the hand of Israel's Palestinian peace partner, it remains unlikely that Netanyahu's right-wing government will free a man convicted for the death of five people. Meantime, Israel's hawkish Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Fatah's "radical and uncompromising positions" created "an unbridgeable gap between us and them." So, while Abbas may be rejuvenated by Fatah's first elections in 20 years, his job hasn't gotten...
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will spend another 18 months as a prisoner of Burma's military junta, a Rangoon court decreed today. She was found guilty of violating the terms of her house arrest after an American man called John Yettaw swam to her lakeside house in Rangoon in May. Yettaw, who has been in poor health, was sentenced to seven years in prison with hard labor...