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Haiti’s
Aftershock
A young woman listens to Michael Edge, a German doctor from International Search and Rescue after having her leg
amputated at a makeshift hospital o f the Belgian First Aid and Support Team in a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
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Haitian government is invisible,
(AP) - The world still can't get
enough food and water to the hun-
gry and thirsty one week after an
nobody has taken firm charge, and
the police have largely given up.
Even as JJ s troops landed in
Seahawk helicopters Tuesday
the manicured lawn of the Natior
Palace, the colossal efforts to he
Haiti are proving inadequate t
cause of the scale of the disast
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Faith Collides with Oregon Law
Ban on teachers wearing 0 religious
dress reconsidered ers
sion are or hoping
lose theirj°bs-B
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to repeal the law in a
by J ake T homas
T he P ortland O bserver
Laleh Zahedi loves working with
children, has a bachelor’s degree in
child psychology, and has five years
of teaching experience.
The law was passed in the 1923,
during a darker time in Oregon poli­
She’d like to get a teaching cer­ ing with an obscure state law.
special legislative session sched­ tics. At the time, the Ku Klux Kian
tificate and work in Oregon’s public
Oregon is one of three states that uled next month. However, others had a strong presence in the state,
school system, but she won’t be­ ban teachers from wearing any reli­ are hoping the Legislature will put
whose sympathizers included Or­
cause doing so would force her to gious dress while performing their the brakes on such a move, claiming
egon Speaker of the House Kaspar
choose between adhering to her instructional duties. Teachers who that it could open up a Pandora’s
Islamic religious beliefs or comply- violate the law could face suspen- Box of other legal issues.
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