[CTRL] Fwd: Today's Headlines from NYTimes.com Saturday, July 28, 2001
Now if this teacher had been armed, maybe the State could have been saved a lot of money. Note he shot his teacher he loved so much right between the eyes.maybe we need more vigilante's patrolling the streets and schools - volunteers, to protect our teachers and children?Maybe the KKK Needs to get a Flag like Gay Pride has as a friendly warning - for this is the beginning of civil wars once again in our streets, only whites are not to defend themselves against this vicious barbarian element in our schools and streets? NEA's solution - big bucks - insurance policy for dead teachers BUT what about the kids left at the mercy of these animals in our schools ..simple solution, the next time someone says bussing - join the club and getta gun and protect your children instead of forcing them to go to schools with barbarians already in the gate, waiting for them. Saba July 27, 2001 Teenager to Serve 28 Years in Prison for Killing Teacher By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) Nathaniel Brazill, 14, with his lawyer, Robert Udell, was sentenced today to 28 years in prison for the murder of his teacher. Video | WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A 14-year-old boy who shot to death his favorite teacher in a rage on the last day of school was sentenced Friday to 28 years in prison. The sentence, just three years more than the legal minimum, shocked some relatives of the victim. Nathaniel Brazill, who was tried as an adult, had faced at least a 25-year minimum sentence and up to life in prison for killing Barry Grunow at Lake Worth Middle School on May 26, 2000. Brazill, wearing a bright red jumpsuit and shackles, showed little emotion as Circuit Judge Richard Wennet rendered his decision. The 28-year sentence is without the possibility of parole or time off for good behavior. In issuing the sentence, Wennet had to decide whether the teen would be a danger to society or could be rehabilitated. But he made no public comment on his reasoning for imposing the 28-year sentence. The judge ordered the teen to earn his high school diploma, take an anger management course and spend two years in a form of house arrest after completing his sentence. He also will serve five years' probation. Defense lawyer Robert Udell said the family will appeal and will not seek clemency until the appeals process was completed. I can tell you he's pleased. Nathaniel just wanted to know if there is a light at the end of the tunnel, Udell said. The defense had sought the minimum 25-year term. Brazill's family rejected a plea deal of 25 years offered by prosecutors before the trial. Kay Grunow, the victim's sister, said she was extremely disappointed with the sentence, calling it an insult to Barry's memory. Brazill was tried as an adult and convicted in May of second-degree murder for killing the 35-year-old English teacher he called a great man and a great teacher. Brazill had returned to school after being suspended by a counselor earlier that day for throwing water balloons. He shot Grunow after the teacher refused to let the seventh-grader talk to two girls in his class. At a daylong sentencing hearing Thursday, Brazill apologized for the first time, telling the judge: Words cannot really explain how sorry I am, but they're all I have. Brazill insisted, however, as he did during his trial, that he didn't mean to hurt his teacher. In urging a life sentence, Grunow's mother and two brothers said Brazill was a danger to society and must be punished for the murder. This was not an accident. I think Nathaniel should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, Phyllis Grunow, the victim's mother, said at Thursday's hearing. I don't think any family should have to go through this. Brazill's mother, Polly Powell, also testified Thursday, sobbing and wiping away tears as she asked the Grunow family for forgiveness and begged the judge to be lenient. Nathaniel is my first born and I love him like nobody else can. I just ask you that you please have mercy on him, Powell said. A defense witness testified that Brazill was a pot boiling over following his suspension and after years of silence about physical abuse of his mother by boyfriends. All this other stuff was exploding inside of him, said Jacqueline Patterson, deputy superintendent of Milwaukee schools. Asked why Grunow was targeted, child psychologist James Gabarino, a Cornell University professor, testified that Brazill was in such a frenzy over his love life and the suspension that who the victim was may not have mattered. [no he picked a white teacher, and a handsome man rather than a reflection of himself.SABA NOTE] Prosecutor Marc Shiner asked for a life sentence, but made a second recommendation of 40 years in prison and probation should the judge not sentence Brazill to life. This young man deserves to spend the rest of his life in jail without parole, Shiner said. That's the only way we can be sure he won't hurt someone again. Grunow's widow, Pam, didn't
[CTRL] Fwd: Today's Headlines from NYTimes.com Wednesday, July 25, 2001
Love this remark made how Buddists want return to respectable dignity? Respectable Dignity - what they going to do operate like Oral Roberts or Jimmy Swaggart. Oral Roberts at least built a University, old ORU and Jesse Jackson contributed what Now these Golden Buddahs - like Golden Dragons have an axe to grind - and oh so much moneytell me in this day and age so quick to have so much, and is this going to be another laundering tub for more drug money? Tell me have they paid any taxes to this country; is this this same bunch Gore knew whereby he took a lot of questionable money? Is tthis the school of the future - Americans to be turned into respectable Buddist types. Or what is it - you would think they would buld their temple in Japan or elsewhere in the world? What is behind all this stuff is it the selling of America? Oh these poor Japanese Buddists see to live pretty high on the hog when oh so many people over here seem to be going busto. Over 20,000 jobs Lucent will drop - qui bono, for they want to make a profit this year. Wonderful, let their workers eat cake. George Bush - where are you - who the hell cares about that god damned EU or that bunch ou met with as of late where people were shot down in the streets while bilderbergers ate in fine style at public expense? Screw them all and let us take our country back. Or do we have a Buddist President in the making at some university who will buy his way into office - and then we all eat rice like pigs while Buddists learn to eat steak? Regardless while some knock the Pope continually in an ttempt to destroy the Catholic Church these buddists have the right idea for it is obvious they have been forced to buy respectability and dignity from the likes of say a Gary Condit? So Remember Pearl Harbor and this one Japanese who said Americans so stpid they cannot find Japan on the map - to which I say tough crap bucko - after world war II you are luckey to still be on the map? Still have a friend of the family residing at the bottom of Pear Harbor aboard the USS Arizona. Saba Welcome, saba22 Sign Up for Newsletters | Log Out Go to Advanced Search July 25, 2001 New West Coast College, Born of the Far East By TODD S. PURDUM Yoshi Nagaoka/Seikyo Shimbun The Buddhist-inspired Soka University of America, in Aliso Viejo, Calif., has 125 students in its first class. Misha Erwitt for The New York Times Norman Pfeiffer was a principal architect for the Soka campus. LISO VIEJO, Calif., July 20 On a lavender-covered hilltop halfway between Los Angeles and San Diego, in the midst of miles of look-alike red-roofed tract houses, an architectural and educational marvel reaches skyward above the Pacific, waiting to spring to life next month as the first new private liberal arts college to be built in California in 25 years. Soka University of America has a grand dream: to join the ranks of venerable institutions like Pomona, Haverford, Hamilton and other small but respected colleges. And it is starting out with a grandeur that older, more established institutions would envy: a $220 million campus in the style of a Tuscan hill town, designed by the architectural firm that restored Radio City Music Hall and rebuilt the Los Angeles Central Library. The college has enrolled 125 students from 17 states and 19 foreign countries. Some students turned down admission to the likes of Bryn Mawr and Brown to be pioneers in a Buddhist-inspired experiment where everyone from the president to a janitor has the same-size office. Here in the newest incorporated city in Orange County, a place once better known as home of the John Birch Society and John Wayne, humanistic, egalitarian values are to be put to work in the cause of world peace. Soka is financed by Soka Gakkai International, a Japanese sect that is one of the world's largest lay Buddhist organizations, with tens of billions in assets. Founded more than 70 years ago by Tsunesaburo Makiguchi, a pacifist and education reformer who died in prison in 1944 for his opposition to Japan's militarism, the sect has sparked controversy for its influence over Japanese politics. The Soka sect founded the Komeito reform political party in the 1960's, and some former members have compared it to a cult, an accusation the organization dismisses. Many of the university's administrators and some faculty members are also Soka members. But the appeal is broader for others, like Anne M. Houtman, who gave up a position in the six-member biology department at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., to become the sole initial member of Soka's biology faculty. (Ah soAmerican teachers with big bucks in their futre???) I was the first-generation college student in my family, said Professor Houtman, the daughter of a blue- collar airline worker in Hawaii, and Pomona College literally changed my life; I've seen the difference it can make. Professor Houtman, drawn to Soka by a national recruiting advertisement,
[CTRL] Fwd: Today's Headlines from NYTimes.com
So how much will be pay for a pound of ground hound? Cui Bono? This is massive sabotage.now who would be causing this? And now they say we can expect this in America? Is that fat pig Kissinger now trying to corner market on meat?Bet that big pig eats a good meals everyday, like the pig Sharon whom Arabs call the Fat Slob - 9 million children still go to bed hungry at night? But the pigs at the trough with Hill and Bill and Denise and Marc Rich will no doubt find a way to profit? I can live without meat - but I like cheese and ice cream - cream cheese on occasion? Tell me how much a six pack of that awful slop they call BRAVO and ENSURE - how much does this cost? See the fine hand of Kissinger, the pig who would corner market on food? Saba Automobiles Job Market Real Estate All ClassifiedsQuick News NYT Front Page Arts Business Health International National New York Region Obituaries Politics Science Sports Technology Weather Corrections Special: Taxes Editorials / Op-Ed Readers' OpinionsAutomobiles Books Cartoons Crossword/Games Job Market Living Magazine Movies Photos Real Estate Travel Week in Review Special: Oscars Boston.com GolfDigest.com Learning Network New York Today NYT Store ShoppingArchives Screensavers Help Center Media Kit NYT Mobile Our AdvertisersHome Delivery Customer ServiceReview Profile E-Mail Options Log Out Text Version Welcome, saba22 Sign Up for Newsletters | Log Out Go to Advanced Search March 14, 2001 Meat From Europe Is Banned by U.S. as Illness Spreads By CHRISTOPHER MARQUIS with DONALD G. McNEIL Jr. The Associated Press The foot-and-mouth disease ravaging British livestock has spread to France, and cattle were burned on Tuesday on a farm near Laval. Foot-and-Mouth's Harsh Approach (Mar. 14, 2001) Brazil Postpones Its Beef Dreams (Mar. 14, 2001) Chronology of Foot and Mouth Disease Outbreak (Mar. 13, 2001) U.S. Free of Foot-and-Mouth Disease for 70 Years, but Some Call Its Return Inevitable (Mar. 3, 2001) Related Site This site is not part of The New York Times on the Web, and The Times has no control over its content or availability. The European Commission for the Control of Foot-and-Mouth Disease The Associated Press The first case of foot-and-mouth disease in continental Western Europe in recent times has been found near Laval, France, where slaughtered cattle awaited a pyre on Tuesday. The tires at left anchor a supply of hay. ASHINGTON, March 13 The United States banned imports of animals and animal products from the European Union today after learning that foot-and-mouth disease had spread to France from Britain. The Agriculture Department said it was taking the precaution to protect the domestic industry from a possible outbreak of the virus, which could cost the American industry billions of dollars in just one year. The virus poses little danger to people, even if they eat the meat of infected animals. But it is virulently contagious and is devastating for cattle, swine, sheep, deer and other cloven-hoofed animals, which it generally debilitates and often leaves unable to grow or produce milk. The ban, which applies to exports from all 15 countries of the European Union, prompted some European officials to complain that the Bush administration was overreacting. But three members of the European Union Belgium, Portugal and Spain are closing their borders to French meat, as is Switzerland. Norway banned imports of French farm products, and Germany and Italy took protective measures. Canada also banned meat imports from the European Union, as well as from Argentina, which has found foot-and-mouth disease in the northwest. Argentina said it would voluntarily restrict beef exports. Kimberley Smith, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture Department, said many items, including most cheeses and cured or cooked meats, are not affected because they are heated in a way that kills the virus. The ban is expected to hit pork producers the most. European beef is already banned by the United States because of mad cow disease, which can cause fatal Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. The Agriculture Department is "taking this time to assess our exclusion activities as a precaution to ensure that we don't get foot-and-mouth disease in the United States," Ms. Smith said. She said the department could not say how long the ban would last. Department officials did not detail which European products would be subject to the ban. But they said it would prohibit the importation of live swine, pork and meat from sheep and goats, regardless of whether it is fresh or frozen. Yogurt and most cheeses would be permitted, they said, because those sold in the United States are made from pasteurized milk. Canned ham or any other food products that have been heated above 175 degrees Fahrenheit are permitted because such processing inactivates the virus, the officials said. The production of such favored items as French brie and Italian prosciutto is closely
