More than 200,000 US public school students were punished by beatings during the 2006-2007 school year, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a joint report released today. In the 13 states that corporally punished more than 1,000 students per year, African-American girls were twice as likely to be beaten as their white counterparts.
The U.S. Should Be Wary of Strongly Backing Georgia
Op_ed
By MWC NEWS
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Crisis in the Caucuses
Despite significant U.S. and Georgian culpability in the crisis in Georgia, most U.S. politicians and media painted Russia as the diabolical “evildoer.” As if the Russian military incursions into Georgia, Abkhazia, and South Ossetia—the latter two are autonomous regions of the former that do not want to be part of that country—happened out of the blue, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice implied that Russia was attempting to bring back the Cold War.
According to today’s New York Times, two Chinese women, both in their 70s, have been sentenced to reeducation camp. The charge? Applying for a permit to protest, in accordance with rules previously established by Chinese communist authorities. The women wanted to protest the eminent-domain taking of their homes in Beijing for the purpose of economic development (which, of course, brings to mind the Kelo decision which upheld the same sort of thing here in the United States).
People continue to assert that “nobody wants to lend” or that “credit has dried up,” but the data fly in the face of such claims. A great deal of lending is taking place. The interest-rate data I reported in a previous post derive from this lending.
The Beijing Olympic Games are on and more than twenty thousand journalists from around the world are reporting on the games. At the same time, these journalists have an opportunity to depict the true face of the Chinese regime, a regime that continues to torture and kill its own people under the guise of denials and glitter.
Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan's former prime minister, has called for judges dismissed by Pervez Musharraf, the former president, to be restored by next Wednesday.
Russian troops have left the key Georgian town of Gori and are pulling out from the surrounding areas, Kakha Lomaia, a Georgian security council official said.
Two campaign offices for John McCain, the Republican presidential candidate, have been evacuated after receiving threatening letters containing white powder, officials say.
Lee Myung-bak, South Korea's president, has told his officials to stop playing golf, saying it sends the wrong message to people suffering the effects of the country's economic downturn.
Spain's civil aviation chief has said that the aeroplane that crashed on Wednesday, leaving 153 people dead, must have suffered more than one kind of failure.
American LaShawn Merritt obliterated the field including his compatriot the defending champion Jeremy Wariner to win the Olympic men's 400 metres title by the widest margin since 1896.
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