The dog ate my WMDs
After several years teaching high school, I’ve heard all the excuses. I didn’t get my homework done because my computer crashed, because my project partner didn’t do their part, because I feel sick, because I left it on the bus, because I had a dance recital, because I was abducted by aliens and viciously probed. Houdini doesn’t have as many tricks. No one on earth is more inventive than a high school sophomore backed into a corner and faced with a zero on an assignment.
Arab Americans meet hits detentions, war
CRYSTAL CITY, Va. – Delegates at the 20th convention of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) here June 12-15 called for ending the U.S. occupation of Iraq, creation of a Palestinian state, and termination of Attorney General John Ashcroft’s mass detention of Arabs and Muslims.
International notes
South Africa: Gov’t releases AIDS guidelines / Nepal: Workers back anti-monarchy movement / Britain: Steelworker retirees protest pension losses / Haiti: Health ministry receives donation / Guatemala: Teachers hit the bricks, again
Iraqi civilian outrage mounts against U.S.
As U.S. attacks intensified this week against continuing armed resistance in Iraq, reports also grew of civilian outrage at sweeps, house searches and mass detentions conducted by the U.S. troops.
