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Kennedy credits his team of veteran educators, young teachers, Teach for America recruits and a parent coordinator. "No one can work in isolation," he says. "My job is to get voices from the community and to keep the team motivated. I see our work like a chessboard. Each child is our king. We have to work to protect him and checkmate the forces of failure. This world is so harsh to children. I see myself as the keeper of the dream that is in every child, and I know we can succeed. That is my blessed hope...
...have become closely linked: EDS runs all GM's computerized operations, from processing paychecks to programming robots on assembly lines. But in the original merger agreement Perot had insisted that he and EDS be granted a highly unusual degree of independence. He did not want the parent company to audit EDS. Moreover, he demanded that EDS be allowed to maintain a different pay structure from GM's?one that called for greater variation in salaries and bonuses, to give EDS employees better incentives for good performance. It galled top GM officials that some of their EDS counterparts were making more...
...argue that legislation is the answer. Brookline, Mass., successfully passed a resolution against spanking, although statewide efforts in Wisconsin in 1992 and in Massachusetts last year collapsed under criticism that it would be impossible to restrict a practice that, according to the magazine American Demographics, nearly half of parent-age Americans think is appropriate for disciplining children 12 and younger...
...failed. Last year in Massachusetts and 15 years ago in Wisconsin proposed anti-spanking bills did not get much support in the legislature; critics feared that it would be impossible to enforce a ban against such a common practice. According to the American Demographics' 2004 data, nearly half of parent-age Americans think it is an appropriate mode of discipline for children 12 and younger. Even more surprising, only 27 states have actually banned corporal punishment from their public school systems...
...would have a hard time differentiating between a responsible parent who thinks about parenting and then hits and one that does not," Lieber said. "Responsible parents have to give up the privilege to physically discipline their children for the sake of protecting children that aren't being hit once in a blue moon or in a light way, but are really being hit day after day, many times...