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...condemn Olin King for using a plastic rod at his boys' school [NATION, June 11]? When properly used, the pipe has the power to deliver a child's soul from hell (Proverbs 23:13,14). Let us condemn the mothers and fathers in this modern American society who show that they hate their children by withholding discipline from them (Proverbs 13: 24) and treat their offspring like bastards (Hebrews...
School Superintendent King justified the severe beating of the youngsters, ages five to 17, by quoting Scripture, Proverbs 22:15: "Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child, but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him." I would answer him: "The devil quotes Scripture to suit his purpose...
...past couple of decades is, appropriately enough, a mystery. But Gregory Mcdonald is appealingly fresh and impudent in his tales of Fletch, the irreverent reporter, and Flynn, the Boston supercop. The civilized and resourceful Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn is on duty here, spying out malefaction at something called the Rod and Gun Club, a secretive woodsy preserve for male members of the Eastern ruling class...
...Kingdom Community Church in tiny Island Pond, Vt. (est. pop. 1,200), corporal punishment of children is part of their Fundamentalist creed. But to their neighbors, it looked like child abuse. There were reports from former church members that babies less than six months old were hit with wooden rods. One 13-year-old girl was said to have been beaten for eight hours, until her body was covered with welts, as punishment for telling a lie. Said Linda Schneider, a former church member: "A child would cry, and they would beat him with a rod until...
...Italy's case, the IMF probably served a useful political purpose in bolstering government policy against parliamentary opposition. More commonly, the fund is a political lightning rod, in part because it is so centrally involved in painful, eleventh-hour policymaking. "People lose sight of the fact that the alternative would be even worse," says a senior fund official. "I find it illuminating that some of the most vocal critics of the IMF are in countries whose economies continue to deteriorate because they refuse to follow IMF recommendations...