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Sitting in Algiers Coffee House, Guillaume Tena sipped mint tea and defended himself against accusations that he is a “digital terrorist...
...because of her credit report raises the question of whether using credit history as a screen leads to discrimination, since minorities, as a group, have had less access to credit. (The case is still pending at the EEOC.) And then there is the fundamental matter of privacy. Says Tena Friery, research director at the San Diego--based Privacy Rights Clearinghouse: "How far into your personal life is your employer entitled...
...Deming, N.M. Victor Cordova Jr., 12, fired one shot into the lobby of Deming Middle School and hit Araceli Tena, 13, in the back of the head. She died the next day. WARNING SIGNS Cordova reportedly boasted the day before the shooting that he would "make history blasting this school," but no adults were told. Since losing his mother to cancer, Cordova was reportedly suicidal...
...post-Columbine story is not always about overreaction. Officials at some schools, including those that have witnessed tragedies, have found ways of persuading students to communicate calmly their worries to teachers they trust. At Deming Middle School in New Mexico, where Araceli Tena was shot in the head by a classmate in 1999, principal Mike Chavez has visited every classroom to talk about the damage of spreading baseless rumors. The Santee news didn't cause a flurry of bogus threats or panicky tips at Deming this week, as it did at so many other schools. Similarly, officials in Jefferson County...
However, there are extremely inventive sections in the book, such as the description of one tena it whose fantastic beliefs lead him to bind his pets a pairs. But even these sections come off dry and forced, as if the author thinks of them as mere examples of his main theme. And once he is finished with these images, he scarcely ever returns to to them, as if he writes from a checklist, crossing off the images as he completes each chapter...