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School Suspends Boy for Bloodshot Eyes
"... when administrators suspect a student is under the influence, a school nurse will observe symptoms like their behavior, odor and their eyes. The district does not actually test students, though. That’s left to the parents." It might help if they actually looked for more than circumstantial evidence. Turns out he'd been crying because his father had been murdered the previous night.
Judges ordered to show more mercy on women criminals when deciding sentences
In fine Orwellian fashion this is in the British government's "Equal Treatment Bench Book"
How Anti-Semitism Helped Create Israel
Foreign Policy Magazine: "At a desperate moment in World War I, British elites appealed to what they saw as the monolithic, all-powerful forces of 'international Jewry' to turn the tide of the conflict -- and promised them Palestine. "
A class to die for: Zombies 101 at U. Baltimore
Can't be worse than any other English class.

Comments

That story about the boy at school is just really really sad. Someone needed to look past the paperwork and see the humanity behind it all. :(