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"I’m here because children everywhere are suffering...." - from speech by a 10-year-old Rachel Corrie. Children are indeed suffering in many places. So are adults. Three children were murdered in Rachel Corrie’s “Palestine” on Monday, December 11. Up to 3,200 Arab families could lose their homes to government bulldozers. Two sisters who were evidently Muslim were murdered for their teachings. If Corrie’s friends in the International Solidarity Movement are looking for a cause, the three incidents listed above amount to a small sample of available causes. The two main problems with this scenario for the ISM is that Jews are...

A "bored" teenager took a joy ride early today over much of the city -- on a stolen John Deere four-wheel-drive front-end loader. A 911 dispatcher got the call about 2:28 a.m. of a reckless driver on a heavy piece of equipment on the Cumberland Avenue Strip. Police responded. It was big. It was yellow. And it wasn't the LSU football team. "I bet you never seen a 13-year-old drive one that good," the 444J loader's driver told the first Knoxville police officer to arrive. Weighing more than 10 tons, the 110 horsepower, $150,000 loader was taken from a construction...