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Lastly, we find it unfortunate that Mr. Schwaber deems it appropriate to accuse the Society of Arab Students of "extremism, anti-Americanism, sensationalism and hate." Such accusations prey on the basest of assumptions about Arabs in general, and Palestinians in particular. Simply because we bring attention to Israel's political and human rights violations in the occupied territories does not mean we merit the titles of extremists, anti-Americans sensationalists, or hate-filled people. We are concerned human beings with legitimate grievances which we wish to express, just as Hillel expresses concern over Soviet Jewry, just as the South African...
...Nicky has to face the harsh realities of being poor and "slow" in Pittsburgh. He is a garbage "helper" for a private truck and receives low wages and inadequate benefits. Neighborhood thugs of all sorts find trusting Nicky to be easy prey...
...friend Heidi, a practicing Lutheran, glared at them. I stared in utter disbelief--incredulous that such people existed--and tried hard to stifle my laughter. My friend Christy sat meekly, not speaking. The couple, sensing prey, focused their efforts...
Hernandez has plenty of company. Last week Secretary of Education William Bennett released a study blasting the worst of the nation's 7,000 for-profit trade schools for deceitful practices that prey on vulnerable and often semiliterate students. The report lays nearly half the Government's $1.6 billion student-loan default burden on the doorsteps of such institutions. Many of the schools, which currently enroll 1.3 million students, have dropout rates in excess of 50% and loan-default rates to match. "The kids are left without an education and with no job," says Bennett, "and the taxpayer ends...
...after Renamo threatened to shoot down the planes. Land routes are hardly safer. More than 400 people were killed in ambushes on the main road from Maputo to the north in the past three months alone. Traveling in convoys guarded by ill-equipped Frelimo troops, relief vehicles are easy prey. Fifteen CARE drivers and assistants have lost their lives since 1984. Driver Vincent Joao Mendes was ambushed twelve miles from Maputo last November as he headed north with a truckload of corn. Mendes escaped by leaping from the cab of the truck, but a soldier and two others were wounded...