School Survival

Dear Friends, As most of you have probably heard, I was arrested before the State of the Union Address tonight. I am speechless with fury at what happened and with grief over what we have lost in our country. There have been lies from the police and distortions by the press. (Shocker) So this is […]

LAST WEEK, a federal judge ruled that the Massachusetts Medicaid program has failed to provide medically necessary, legally required services to seriously mentally ill children. It's a tough rebuke, but a sound call for a better mental health system.United States District Judge Michael Ponsor wrote that the question was whether Massachusetts had ''kept the promise […]

The Secret Service is investigating a seventh-grader who wrote a school essay that authorities say advocated violence against President Bush, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and others.The boy's homework assignment for English class was to write what he would do on a perfect day. In addition to the president and Winfrey, the boy wrote that […]

SADDAM HUSSEIN watched his own trial on television yesterday after all of the eight defendants refused to attend the session, chaired by a tough new chief judge who has cracked down on the deposed leader's theatrical outbursts.Facing three rows of empty seats in court, Raouf Abdel Rahman, the Kurdish chief judge, said that he had […]

President Bush's call to break the U.S. "addiction" to oil generally drew a mixture of skepticism and hope abroad Wednesday, while the president of OPEC said such a change in energy policy wasn't possible in such a short time.The French daily Le Monde expressed doubt that Bush could reach his goal of cutting oil imports […]

A study of 950,000 Swedish men has shown that taller men get a better education, a researcher said on Wednesday.The study, to be published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, could suggest short people are discriminated against as they are expected to be low achievers, said researcher Finn Rasmussen at Sweden's Karolinska Institute."The probability of […]

The international community has given Iran a "final opportunity" to meet its nuclear obligations, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has said.Straw met with Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki for more than an hour Wednesday. The pair also met Tuesday at a conference on Afghanistan in London."He (Mottaki) really needs to see this agreed position by […]

The Senate voted 58-42 to approve Bush's nomination of conservative judge Samuel Alito to a lifetime appointment to the nine-member Supreme Court. Alito, 55, has served as a federal judge since 1990.Washington - The US Senate Tuesday handed President George W. Bush a huge, but not surprising, victory as he heads into his most important […]

The latest spying on UCLA's faculty by a conservative zealot resembles Germany's fascist anti-intellectual movement of the 1930s.Andrew Jones is a man on a mission. A 2003 UCLA graduate and former head of the campus Republican organization, Jones is waging a war against the twin evils of women's and ethnic studies. He is also taking […]

"PTA", the acronym for the National Parent Teacher Association, conjures for many American adults fond memories of their parents attending parent-teacher conferences and baking cakes to help raise funds for the public schools that these adults as children attended. Memories are one thing but the National PTA is quite another. The national organization and its […]