June 2010
June 24th, 2010
Written by Larry Feldman in Feature Stories with 0 Comments
From the outside, it looked like an ordinary classroom, but on the inside, extraordinary things were happening. Twelve third-graders, six Black and six White, giggled nervously as their adult facilitator urged them to “stretch out” on the classroom floor. The children were tentative – many of them had met just a few minutes before – but they followed directions, extending their arms to the center...
June 23rd, 2010
Written by Janice S. Ellis... in Cause and Civility with 0 Comments
Strong laws and regulations, with proactive compliance reviews and stiff penalties for gross business violations, are the best defenses against the unseemly side of our free market system – If only they were diligently enforced.
Let us hope that as the United State’s Senate finalizes the provisions of the bill on financial reform that they will be ever mindful of the great elephant on the floor,...
June 23rd, 2010
Written by Christine Orcha... in Feature Stories with 1 Comment
Since learning about them as a child, whenever I would hear the word “Eskimo,” I would think of a stocky person wrapped in animal skins and furs, setting out from an igloo with harpoon in hand to hunt for the family’s meal. These people seemed as different from me as creatures from another planet. To imagine that many of them lived in one of the states in the same nation, as I, seemed...
June 22nd, 2010
Written by Anthony Larson in Our Daily Walk with 0 Comments
Tempus fugit. That’s what the Romans said, and they knew what they were talking about because "time does fly." What they failed to mention was that tempus fugits faster and faster the older you get.
When I was a child, tempus never did fugit. A day seemed to go on forever. Weeks were incomprehensibly long, never mind a month. A year seemed so unfathomable that it could have been a lifetime....
June 21st, 2010
Written by Kaleena Thompson in Setting It Straight with 1 Comment
On May 1, Pakistani-American Muslim, Faisal Shahzad, left a Nissan Pathfinder rigged with a makeshift explosive to go off in Times Square. Although the bomb attempt failed, it further widened the door to racial division between the Muslim world and the West. Since the Sept.11, 2001, attacks, Islamic terrorism has engulfed our society, creating ripple effects in our daily life. No-fly lists and...