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...Palestinians in Gaza have come to dread the phone ringing at midnight. Too often a stranger's voice, in flawless Arabic, will say, "I'm from the Israel Defense Forces. This is a warning. We're going to bomb your house in 15 minutes. Leave and tell your neighbors." Usually the Israeli intelligence is accurate--Gaza seethes with Palestinian informers--and the bombs, dropped by an F-16 fighter circling this narrow coastal strip on the Mediterranean, will destroy a hideout, weapons cache or hidden tunnel...
...assault on our children: that's a consensus builder if ever there was one. Dateline's targets deserve to be put away, and programs like it do a service by alerting parents to threats. And last week, which also saw the schoolhouse murders of five Amish girls by a stranger who evidently planned to rape his victims, the media could be forgiven its wall-to-wall weirdo watch. The problem is proportion. Strangers make up 7% of child molesters; the vast majority are family members. But you wouldn't know it from watching TV. When stranger predators are everywhere...
After a trying week for Eastern Pennsylvania, let’s hope for some diverting pigskin in Lewisburg tomorrow. Penn, no stranger to heartache, gets back on track after a sluggish performance versus Dartmouth...
...House?s Program for Teenagers Is No Stranger to Scandal. Congressional pages arrive in Washington from across the country, sponsored by their local representative or senator. Now, their education includes a possible scandal revolving around sexually explicit Internet and cellphone messages between Mr. Foley, 52, and a 16-year-old former page from Louisiana...
...their classes; soldiers wanted her to lead their cadets; underclassmen wanted to absorb a little bit of the drive that made Perez push herself and still manage to serve others, from starting an AIDS ministry at her hometown church as a teenager to donating bone marrow to a stranger just before she headed to Iraq...