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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
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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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