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The Lineup: Week of September 13-19, 2010
Here’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package.
Remembering Ronni
Until 9/11, most Americans didn’t believe that a terrorist attack could ever happen on U.S. soil. Yet one had occurred just a generation earlier–on September 21, 1976 on Embassy Row in Washington. One of the victims was New Jersey-born Ronni Karpen Moffitt, a 25-year-old college graduate and newlywed. She was killed on her way to work, as the car she was riding in succumbed to a car bomb planted by agents of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet. Orlando Letelier, her colleague and the car’s driver, also perished.
Elders’ Safety Net Could Fray After Nov. 2
Stores are already full of Halloween costumes and scary stuff for October 31. TV stations are gearing up for reruns of “Nightmare on Elm Street” and its many sequels, when Freddy Krueger will revisit us again and again.
Immigrant Youth in Limbo
Just recently, Ivan Nikolov was released from jail after living a nightmare. The 22-year-old Russian immigrant was arrested on May 5, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents raided his family’s home. Although Nikolov’s mother was married to an American, in 2002 she missed a citizenship hearing and failed to adjust her status.
Game Time for New START
After 20 hearings and more than four months of debate, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is gearing up to vote on the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), which President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed in April.
Beck’s Civil Rights Delusion
It seems to be the season of rallies–tea party rallies, 9/11 rallies, 9/12 rallies, Glenn Beck rallies. I’m all for it; I love rallies.
Slashing Food Stamps Makes No Sense
Yes, even as millions of Americans are stuck in long-term, relentless unemployment, thus increasing the urgent need for family assistance, our well-fed, big-butted Solons grabbed nearly $12 billion from the supplemental nutrition assistance program. This puts the “dumb” in dumbfounding.
MLK’s Shoes
Class Struggle
As U.S. schools, especially those serving minorities and the poor, fall further and further behind Europe and East Asia, self-flagellation rules our education establishment. We always admit that what we’ve been doing up to now hasn’t worked, but finally, by cracky, we’re ready to bite the bullet and get at it. This biting generally takes the form of punishing teachers whose students don’t measure up.
The Lineup: Week of September 6-12, 2010
Here’s what you’ll find in the latest OtherWords editorial package, which includes an op-ed by Jason Salzman about the tea party’s desire to scrap the Department of Education. Get all this and more in your inbox by subscribing to our weekly newsletter. If you haven’t signed up yet, please do.
