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...backwater that some in the White House joked it was punishment for Cheney's having botched the Administration's energy plan. Despite all the evidence, terrorism seemed hypothetical; proposals for a federal homeland-security program, which had been floating around Washington since the mid-1980s, evoked memories of 1950s schoolchildren doing duck-and-cover drills under their desk...
...Party since the end of the ultraleftist Cultural Revolution a quarter century ago?and the leadership was quick to exploit it. Immediately after the announcement of Beijing's victory, the entire politburo stood before the nation for the live television broadcast of a "mass cultural gathering" that featured pirouetting schoolchildren singing ditties like New Beijing Love, New Olympic Dreams. Then President Jiang Zemin hitched a ride to Tiananmen Square for the most populist performance of his career. He appeared on the rostrum overlooking the crowd?near the same place Chairman Mao Zedong had reviewed a million Red Guards, the shock...
...when they try to get it right, they get it wrong. Last year the Department of Health gave out 44 million free condoms with instructions in 11 languages stapled to them! That's 44 million death warrants! Q: You're a white, middle-aged, gay man telling predominantly black schoolchildren about safe sex. Why do they listen to you? A: Firstly, I'm not a parent. I'm not a teacher or a preacher. I'm an entertainer with a box of tricks. Secondly, I chat with them as equals, using words they understand. When 10-year-old boys...
...reported that a Japanese madman stabbed eight schoolchildren in a suburb of Osaka [WORLD, June 18]. Some will argue that if knives were illegal in Japan (a country with a long history of swords and such), this awful attack wouldn't have happened. It's pretty absurd to claim that if knives and blades were made illegal now, this sort of killing would not happen in the future, but haven't we heard something like that before? KURT MAUSERT Saratoga Springs...
...investigate the incident and provide counseling to the children. "Schools should be places where children feel safe and secure." Will they ever feel quite as sheltered again? Or, like the Columbine massacre in the U.S. state of Colorado two years ago, will the Ikeda episode inflict Japan's schoolchildren, teachers and parents with long-term emotional scars? Until last week, Japanese schools, including the one in Ikeda, were typically open and easy to enter. During school hours, gates and doors are left unlocked. There are no security guards posted. So it was no trouble for Takuma to drive his silver...