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Seventh-grade boys at Sunnyvale Middle School feared going to first-period PE class. They knew what might await them: Vicious sexual attacks by older eighth-grade students. Throughout much of last school year, a pack of eighth-graders repeatedly threatened to sexually attack the younger students before and after class...

I am sorry for posting a vanity but I need some help in debunking this guys data. I have been able to do so on the immigration and war on terror issues. My knowledge of the economy is not up to snuff. I know some of these numbers are manipulated. I just need the help of the fantastic Freepers to show me which ones. Thanks in advance. WAGES American families have consistently seen their incomes decline during the Bush Presidency—even when calculating only from the end of the last recession. • For 2005, average real weekly wages fell 0.4% from...

WASHINGTON — The Bush administration deliberately misused or ignored intelligence analysis in the buildup of the 2003 invasion into Iraq, according to a former top intelligence official.

<p>WASHINGTON — Taking his latest shot at President Bush for the nation's economic jitters, former Vice President and presidential candidate Al Gore said the Bush administration ought to sack its economic policy team.</p> <p>"The best thing they could do is completely scrap the entire economic plan and start over again from scratch. And get rid of their entire economic team and start with a brand new one tomorrow that has some common sense to get our country back on track," Gore said.</p>

<p>NEW YORK — A heavily armed black man allegedly shot three people and tried to set patrons at a Manhattan bar on fire Sunday before being wounded by officers and arrested in what police said was a racially motivated attack.</p>

<p>A Confederate battle flag adorning a Crestview, Fla., memorial that honors Florida's last Civil War veteran is drawing the ire of the NAACP, which says its presence is racist and divisive, reports The Associated Press.</p> <p>Sabu Williams, president of the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, likened the flag to the Berlin Wall, contending it represents a wall of terror, hatred, murder, bigotry, and shame.</p>

<p>NEW YORK — If you believe the TV commercials and magazine ads, the age of the mom-and-pop company is back.</p> <p>Instead of relying on telecommunication giants AT&T Wireless or MCI for your cellular-phone service, you can get your text-messaging needs met by the mysterious but more personable mLife. And you can celebrate by bragging to your mother about it on The Neighborhood's home-telephone service and swigging some Doc’s Hard Lemon drink instead of corporate brew Budweiser.</p>

(CNSNews.com) - Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Joseph Biden (D-Del.) is being urged to investigate the State Department's allegations that Cuba is developing biological weapons and may even be exporting those weapons to America's enemies. However, the Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), the group calling on Biden to convene Senate hearings, has already concluded that the source of the allegations, Under-Secretary of State John Bolton, is a "fabricator." According to COHA, Biden's committee should "either disprove or substantiate the explosive charges" made by Bolton with hearings as soon as possible. In a speech before the Heritage Foundation in Washington last...

Rules restrict junk food sales in schools 05/01/2002 By TAWNELL D. HOBBS / The Dallas Morning News Texas students with a sweet tooth will find it harder to turn up their noses at cafeteria food this fall. The Texas Education Agency is strengthening a policy that restricts the sale of the junkiest junk foods at schools during lunch periods. Next school year, the sale of soft drinks, hard candies, gum, nonjuice popsicles and other items deemed by the government to be "foods of minimal nutritional value" will be forbidden in school cafeterias, hallways and common areas where federally subsidized school...

Right now as I stare out my window at the rain coming down in Dallas, there are hundreds of thousands American soldiers prepared to die so that I may continue to look out my window at the rain coming down, in a free country.I am truly humbled by this whole experience.

Ever faithful God, in death we are reminded of the precious birthrights of life and liberty you endowed in your American people. You have shown once again that these gifts must never be taken for granted. We pledge to those whom you have called home, and ask of you - Patience, to measure our lust for action; Resolve, to strengthen our obligation to lead; Wisdom, to illuminate our pursuit of justice, and; Strength, in defense of liberty. We seek your special blessing today for those who stand as sword and shield, protecting the many from the tyranny of the few. ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- More minority students than ever before took the College Board's Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) in 2001, but the group's president said Tuesday that more should be done to close widening racial gaps in exam results."Tests are not the problem," said College Board President Gaston Caperton at a Washington news conference. "Students are not the problem. The problem we have is an unfair education system in America -- an unequal education system."Average 2001 SAT scores among minority students continued to trail scores among whites in both verbal and math categories, with the exception of Asian-American students, who outperformed ...

I need some affirmation here people.Am I the only one who feels we should judge our politicians by whether or not they have had an affair? If they feel that is logical thought, I cringe to see what else passes as rational on the hill.Am I the only one who feels if they got rid of BMW's all together there would be far less incidents of road rage?Am I the only one who feels Katie Couric used to be cute now she is just annoying?Am I the only one who wonders how other nations can feel threatened by our commitment ...

School District Sued Over Religious Music Friday, May 11, 2001 COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Board of Education member says he doesn't understand why the ACLU is suing over the use of religious music in schools, which he considers to be a matter freedom of expression. "I'm very disappointed that this outside organization has decided to come in and make an issue of this," David Dobos said Thursday after the American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio filed the federal court suit. He said the ACLU was acting in a "childish manner and trying to dictate their ideas and morals on ...

FOXNews.com =3.0) { if ((window.navigator.appName.indexOf("Microsoft")=="0") & (window.navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Mac")>=0) & (parseFloat(navigator.appVersion.substring(0,navigator.appVersion.indexOf(""))) --> Inflammatory Article Highlights Black, Hispanic Mistrust Thursday, April 19, 2001 By Bret Baier &nbsp;Email this Article &nbsp;&nbsp; CHARLOTTE&nbsp;&#151;&nbsp;New census figures reveal&nbsp;Hispanics to be one of the fastest growing minority groups in the country, having reached parity with African-Americans as the largest minority groups and fueling speculation about what it might mean for race relations in the United States.&nbsp; Artellia&nbsp;Burch, a reporter for The Charlotte Post, was assigned&nbsp;to get reactions from Charlotte's black community to the growing number of Hispanics in Charlotte.&nbsp; "We are a black newspaper and our slogan ...

If what the democrats say is true, that President Bush is to blame for the sluggish economy because he "talked down" the economy during the campaign, why can't the entertainment industry be held to the same standard?If simply talking about the economy has an effect on it, how can simply watching a movie, music video or TV show or listening to a song or playing a violent video game not have an effect on the person doing the watching or listening?Have you ever taken the CNN poll on their website? Some of the questions are worded so convolutedly, there is ...

Let me see if I have a handle on this campaign finance reform issue:1. We have laws on the books concerning campaign financing.2. Because these laws are too easy to break, we need new laws.3.People are actually applauding the politicians for making new laws after proving to us the old ones are just too darn easy to break.4. One of the best campaign finance law breakers has his name on the bill.5. Democrats applaud the effort spearheaded by a Republican.If congress passed a law that said if any of the exisiting campaign finance laws are broken, the guilty congressperson or ...

Yesterday, after the news of the school shooting, I was flicking through the channels and came upon courtTV. They were having a discussion on the shooting. There were three guests. I have forgotten all of their names. One was the lawyer who defended Dr Kevorkian. One was a radio talk show host in LA. The other was an African American judge on TV. Brown I believe was his name. Kevorkians lawyer was the anti-gun contingent. Brown was the common sense guest. The talk show host did not actually have much to say. Three exchanges caught my attention:1) After the judge ...