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Back to School with Bullet-Proof Backpacks
Looking for just the right accoutrement for your child’s back-to-school fall wardrobe? Consider the bullet-proof backpack. Retailing at a hefty $175.00, “My Child’s Backpack” looks like a regular...
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The Gena Six, Ahmadinejad and Civil Liberties
On this first full day of autumn, with the leaves beginning to change colors and students back in school, we await Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at Columbia University in New York...
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Lee Bollinger, World’s Rudest Host
Having been brought up with manners, it was unnerving to watch how much damage can be done to diplomacy in the absence of manners, as skillfully demonstrated this afternoon by Columbia University’s...
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Two Troubled Teens and The People Who Failed Them
“It can happen anywhere,” said Darnell Rodgers, a senior at Cleveland, Ohio’s SuccessTech Academy, after he was shot in the elbow by 14-year-old Asa Coon while at school yesterday. Coon shot two...
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Columbine Copycat and YouTube Videos
According to CNN, the Pennsylvania teenager arrested last night for plotting a Columbine-style attack on Plymouth-Whitemarsh High School in Plymouth Meeting, PA had started the “Imperial Cobra Army,”...
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Common Sense Absent in Dennis Township, NJ
Kyle Walker, 7, drew a picture of a stick figure shooting a watergun in his second-grade class at Dennis Township Primary School in Cape May County, New Jersey last week. He carefully wrote the word...
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Educational Folly in Red Oak, Iowa
While we’re on the subject of educational folly, there was a recent noteworthy example in Red Oak, IA. Steve Bitterman, 60, told students in his Western Civilization class at Southwestern Community...
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Student Pot Bust Leads to Family Deportation
A ninth-grade student at Catalina High Magnet School in Tucson, Arizona, who went to school stoned last Thursday and with a small amount of weed in his backpack, was speedily deported along with his...
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