Bush Pulls Out of ABM Treaty; Putin Calls
Move a Mistake December 13, 2001
By TERENCE
NEILAN In a move that reflected what he said was "a vastly
different world," President Bush formally announced today that the United States was
withdrawing from the Antiballistic Missile Treaty that it signed with the Soviet Union in
1972. Russia termed the move a mistake, but said it did not feel threatened by the
decision. China, which was not a signatory to the pact, repeated its opposition to the
missile defense system proposed by the Bush administration. nytimes.com
House Approves Sweeping Election Reform Bill
December 12, By Thomas Ferraro (Reuters) - On the first
anniversary of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that decided the 2000 presidential election,
the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a bill to implement the most
sweeping reforms of the nation's election system in more than a generation. The $2.65
billion measure, which passed 362-63, now goes on to the Senate for consideration. It
would provide funding for a number of improvements and for new equipment and establish
minimum standards, including for what constitutes a vote on various kinds of voting
machines. news1.iwon.com
Democrats to consider Bush's
proposed income tax cut December 12, (AP) - Senate
Democrats expressed a willingness Wednesday to consider
President Bush's accelerated income tax cut as part of an economic stimulus compromise as
long as the measure also contains a generous Democratic package for the unemployed.
katu.com
 AFSA Educators' Union President has Mixed Reaction to
Education Reform Deal Dec.12 /U.S. Newswire/
Dr. Joe L. Greene,
president of the American Federation of School Administrators (AFSA), AFL-CIO, a national
labor organization representing public school principals, assistant principals,
administrators and supervisors today issued the following statement in reaction to the
compromise reached by lawmakers on the landmark, sweeping Education Reform Bill, H.R.1. usnewswire.com
A Warning on Climate Change
Pollution's Effects Could Be Sudden, NAS Report Says December 12, 2001
by Eric Pianin While recent climate change studies have focused on the risks of a gradual rise in the
Earth's temperature, a new National Academy of Sciences report has concluded that
greenhouse gases and other pollutants could trigger large, abrupt and potentially
disastrous climate changes. commondreams.orgAshcroft defends Bush’s war against the
Constitution
12 December Tells Senate hearing that critics "aid terrorists" By Kate
Randall and John Andrews. Amid growing disquiet over the Bush
administration’s attacks on democratic rights following the September 11 attacks,
Attorney General John Ashcroft appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on December
6. The hearing was called to discuss recent measures such as President Bush’s
authorization of secret military tribunals to try alleged terrorist suspects. Displaying
equal measures of arrogance and evasion, Ashcroft swept aside concerns for basic
constitutional protections and charged that his critics “aid terrorists” and
“give ammunition to America’s enemies.” wsws.org
Women's Coalition: New Social Security Proposals Bad for Women
11 Dec U.S. Newswire The National Council of Women's Organizations
(NCWO), the oldest and largest umbrella coalition of the nation's 150 major women's
groups, rejects the preliminary proposals of the President's Social Security Commission.
"All three proposed plans outlined at the November 29th meeting fail to meet the
President's goals to strengthen Social Security for current and near retirees, and
actually risk the future economic security of younger workers, particularly women"
said Heidi Hartmann, Ph.D., Chair of NCWO's Task Force on Women & Social Security. usnewswire.com
Social Security Commission Fails To Meet White House Solvency
Goals; Commission
Proposes Benefit Cuts Dec. 10 /U.S.
Newswire/ "By it's own standards, the President's Commission has failed to advance
the cause of Social Security reform," Max Richtman, Executive Vice President of the
National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare said today at a press
conference. "None of the plans put forward by the Commission achieves the president's
goal of achieving solvency over a 75-year period. None identifies specific resources to
close the financing shortfall the program faces over the long term," he said. The
National Committee chairs the Income Security Committee of the Leadership Council of Aging
Organizations and Richtman spoke on behalf of the 47 nonprofit agencies that are part of
that organization. "Each of the proposals put forward by the
commission require specific, massive cuts in defined benefits - even for those who do not
opt for the voluntary accounts," Richtman said. "The commission has demonstrated
that we cannot expect to improve the long-term soundness and strength of Social Security
by allowing individuals to withdraw money from the existing retirement trust fund. The
commission can't get around the fact that diverting up to four percent of payroll tax into
private accounts only moves up the date on which the trust fund moves into deficit,"
he said. usnewswire.com
Congressman dares foes to
mention Levy scandal December
11, 2001 By MARK Z. BARABAK Rep. Gary Condit, D-Ceres, facing an uphill bid for re-election, dared his
opponents Monday to make an issue of his relationship with Chandra Levy. He said the
scandal surrounding the missing intern was a media fabrication and that he would not let
"the pundits and the talking heads" chase him from the race. modbee.com
America's new brand of justice? Dec 10, Nat Hentoff In Spain,
the international war on terrorism has netted eight men suspected
of being linked to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon. But
Spain will not extradite those suspects to the United States unless this country agrees
that they will not be tried by one of the president's controversial military tribunals.
And, it is clear, as the New York Times reported on Nov. 24, that it's doubtful any of the
15 countries that have signed the European Convention on Human Rights will extradite any
terrorist suspects they find. washingtontimes.com
Taxpayer Coalition (Of the wealthy) Will Hold
Press Conference Supporting President's Plan to Reform (Abolish) Social Security 10
Dec U.S. Newswire Americans for
Tax Reform (ATR) will hold a press conference on Dec. 11 in support of President Bush's
plan to reform the Social Security system. The President's Commission to Strengthen Social
Security will meet in the same building earlier in the day. usnewswire.com
Social Security scare for GOP
Dec 9 BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES Senior
Republican members of Congress are so upset with early recommendations of President
Bush's Social Security reform Theft
commission that they privately urge that the issue not be raised during the 2002
midterm election year.What concerns Republicans are the bipartisan panel's preliminary
recommendations, which include a decrease in benefits. That political blunder never would have been committed, GOP leaders say,
if Bush had not rejected their pleas to include sitting members of Congress on the
commission. It is headed by Democratic former Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
of New York and Republican Richard Parsons, the newly promoted CEO
of AOL Time Warner. Republicans insist that Bush must preach Social
Security reform to the country to prevent negative political consequences in the 2002
election. Now, however, they fear it may be too late for that. suntimes.com
US law chief 'throws rights to the wind' 09 December 2001, Backed by
a large majority of ordinary Americans, John Ashcroft, US Attorney General,
has emerged as the prime defender of Washington's sweeping new anti-terrorist powers which
many Democrats, leading lawyers, and international critics regard as a violation of the US
Constitution and of human rights. Last week Mary Robinson, the United Nations human rights
chief, became the latest high-profile figure to lay into Mr Ashcroft, a former senator
from Missouri. She questioned the Bush administration's "trust me" attitude over
the new measures, saying they circumvented the system of checks and balances of a
democratic society. news.independent.co.uk
Daschle gives theory on anthrax's sender
Dec. 9, 2001 Reuters Military
background called probable Senate Majority Leader
Tom Daschle, whose Capitol Hill office received an anthrax-laced letter in October, said
Saturday he believes the sender was probably someone with a military background. chron.com
Rights group refuses to seat Bush appointee
8
December BY WILL LESTER (AP) Escalating its
feud with the White House, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights refused Friday to seat a
new commissioner named by President Bush. After showing up for his first meeting, Peter
Kirsanow attempted to vote, but he was ignored and eventually sat silently Friday as the
commissioners continued debate.miami.com
US jobless rate hits six-year high
8
December 2001 By Jerry White The US unemployment rate rose three-tenths of 1 percent in
November, to 5.7 percent, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report released
Friday. The jump in the jobless rate—to the highest level in six years—follows a
half a percentage point increase in October, and is a further indication of the deepening
economic slump in the US.wsws.org
300 Law Professors Oppose Tribunals Plan 12.08.01
by Katharine Q. Seelye More than 300 law professors from around the country are
protesting President Bush's order to establish military tribunals for foreign terrorist
suspects. In a letter that originated at Yale Law School, the lawyers assert that such
tribunals are "legally deficient, unnecessary and unwise." truthout.com
Price of Bush's Trade Powers? Protectionism
December 8, 2001 By JOSEPH KAHNASHINGTON Dec. 7 The Bush administration hailed
Thursday's photo-finish vote on presidential trade powers as a sterling ˜ though
slender ˜ victory for free trade. But in return for crucial support, House Republican
leaders quietly agreed to weaken one of the Clinton administration's most-prized trade
accords. Robert B. Zoellick, trade official nytimes.com
Condit will run again for California congressional seat
December
8, 2001 By Ken McLaughlin San Jose
Mercury News MODESTO, Calif. - U.S. Rep. Gary Condit on Friday ended the mystery of
whether he would run for re-election, walking into the Stanislaus County registrar's
office 45 minutes before the filing deadline. Surrounded by several aides, his son Chad
and several dozen reporters and photographers, Condit dropped off 1,500 nomination
signatures and a check for $1,451.realcities.com
Ashcroft says any criticism of his police state
measures aids the terrorist cause December
7 Ashcroft Defends Anti-Terrorism Steps, Civil Liberties Groups' Attacks 'Only Aid Terrorists,' Senate
Panel Told Attorney General John D. Ashcroft resolutely
defended the Justice Department's anti-terrorism tactics yesterday, telling a Senate
committee the measures are necessary to prevent future attacks and suggesting that
criticism of them aids the terrorist cause. washingtonpost.com
Alliance For Justice Condemns Ashcroft For Accusing 'Critics' of Treason
and Refusing To Prevent Terrorists From Buying Guns Dec. 7
/U.S. Newswire The Alliance for Justice expresses deep concern over Attorney General John Ashcroft's
allegation that those who criticize the Bush Administration's decision to use military
tribunals to try non-U.S. citizens are "aiding terrorists" as well as eroding
national unity. The U.S. Constitution, as the Attorney General certainly knows, defines
treason as giving "the Enemies...Aid and Comfort." usnewswire.com
The Geneva Convention and the US massacre of POWs
in Afghanistan 7 December 2001 WSWS Editorial Board
On
December 1, the last of some 80 survivors of the US-British-Northern Alliance assault on
the Qala-i-Janghi prison fortress outside Mazar-i-Sharif emerged from their underground
hideouts and surrendered to their assailants. For six days, beginning Sunday, November 25,
American and British special forces joined with troops loyal to Northern Alliance General
Rashid Dostum in a massive and one-sided attack on 400 to 800 non-Afghan Taliban who had
surrendered the previous day in Kunduz. The US, Britain and Northern Alliance justified
their slaughter of the prisoners, most of whom were killed in two days of American air
strikes, on the grounds that the Taliban captives had staged an uprising. wsws.org
The Senate's Quiet Thorn In GOP's Side
Blocking Bush Policies Makes Daschle a Target
December 7, 2001 By John Lancaster Washington Post Staff Writer --
In
South Dakota last month, newspapers carried political ads featuring side-by-side
photographs of Saddam Hussein and Senate Majority Leader Thomas A. Daschle (D). The ads
accused Daschle of helping to keep the Iraqi dictator in power by blocking oil drilling in
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. washingtonpost.com
Gephardt Expresses Disappointment with House Republican Negotiators on the
Stimulus Package Dec. 7 /U.S. Newswire/
The following is a
statement by House Democratic Leader Richard A. Gephardt: "I am
deeply disappointed that the House Republican negotiators on the stimulus package have
left town for the weekend and reneged on their commitment to stay here and work to reach
bipartisan agreement on an economic package. After promising to stay here and get a deal
done, the leadership apparently decided to change its mind. It haspacked up shop and will
not do its work for the American people. usnewswire.com
Two hundred arrests in New Jersey teachers strike 7 December
2001 By Steve Light
and Jeremy Johnson Some two hundred striking teachers in Middletown,
New Jersey have been thrown in jail since Monday afternoon for defying a judge’s
back-to-work order. Their number is expected to grow as the walkout by 1,000 teachers,
secretaries, nurses and school social workers continued on Thursday, when at least another
65 teachers were led off in handcuffs after rejecting an ultimatum that they return to the
classrooms or go to jail for contempt of court. wsws.org
Civil rights panel balks at Bush
12/07/2001 By Judy Keen The White House and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights are heading for
a politically charged showdown over an appointment by President Bush to the panel. usatoday.com
Lawsuit seeks to block Bush energy plan for federal
land 12/7/01 By ROBERT GEHRKE (AP)
Environmentalists have sued the Bush administration in an effort to block the president's
efforts to accelerate energy exploration on federal land. The lawsuit claims the Bureau of
Land Management and its parent agency, the Interior Department, broke the law by not
assessing the environmental and cultural damage that could be done or consulting with
Indian tribes before opening a dozen parcels in southern Utah to oil and gas exploration.
nj.com
Slim victory for Bush on trade
215-214
12/07/2001
(AP)
House vote gives him stronger authority to negotiate global
deals In a one-vote victory for a wartime White House, the House approved legislation
Thursday giving President Bush stronger authority to negotiate global trade deals. dallasnews.com
Fast Track "win" could haunt Bush administration and Democrats who sided with it December 6,
thenation In an agonizing Congressional defeat for foes of Bush White
House's free-trade agenda, the House of Representatives voted Thursday afternoon to grant
the president Fast Track trade negotiating authority by the narrowest possible margin --
one vote. The 215-214 vote for the Bush administration's top legislative priority was a
bitter defeat for labor, environmental and human rights groups, which for months had
battled to convince Congress to limit the ability of the administration to negotiate
sweeping new free-trade pacts, including a hemispheric Free Trade Area of the Americas
pact. Foes of the proposal wasted no time predicting the worst, now that Bush appears --
with Senate approval likely -- to be positioned to unilaterally make trade deals in regard
to which Congress will retain only the power to approve or reject pacts that cannot be
amended. thenation.com
Senate begins work on farm bill despite opposition
2001-12-06 By Chris Casteel
The Oklahoman Despite strong opposition from the White House and many fiscal
conservatives, the Senate on Wednesday began debate on a five-year farm bill that would
dramatically increase crop subsidies and spending on environmental programs. newsok.com
President's Commission to Strengthen DISMANTLE
Social Security to Hold Final Meeting; News Conference With All 16
Commissioners To Follow 6 Dec. U.S.
Newswire The President's Commission to Strengthen
Social Security will hold its final meeting on Tuesday, Dec. 11, from 10 a.m. until 1 p.m.
at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Washington, D.C., to be immediately followed by a news
conference with all 16 members of the commission. At the meeting the commission will
review a draft final report. The report is expected to be provisionally approved, subject
to final edits and instruction from the commissioners. When those changes are
incorporated, the report will be submitted to President Bush. usnewswire.com
Congressman wants Cheney to provide details of any Enron meetings
Dec. 6, 2001(AP) A Democratic
congressman on Tuesday urged Vice President Dick Cheney to disclose details of any
meetings between executives of financially stricken Enron Corp. and the White House. Rep.
Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said Enron executives who contributed heavily to President Bush's
campaign may have exerted "significant influence" on the energy plan formulated
by Cheney's task force last spring. In a dispute that began in April, Cheney has refused
to tell congressional Democrats which power industry executives and lobbyists met with the
task force. The panel recommended expanded oil and gas drilling on public land and a
rejuvenated nuclear power system. chron.com
Saint George December 6, 2001
BY MICHAEL WOLFF Rallying around a wartime president is one thing. But why does
Dubya remain entirely untouchable even as we question his lieutenants -- and his
increasingly disturbing policies? To get the willies from George W. Bush, to distrust the man, to have
your stomach roll a bit when you hear him speak, is to feel like the most churlish and
sullen of adolescents. He's the unappealing uncle -- with his cold eye on you -- whose
house you're stuck at this holiday season. While you're trying to shut out his existence,
everybody else is sucking up to him. nymag.com
Gephardt, Bonior, Rangel and American Workers to Oppose
Republican Fast Track Bill 5 Dec U.S. Newswire
Democratic Leader Richard Gephardt, Democratic Whip David Bonior and Ways and Means
Ranking Member Democrat Charlie Rangel will appear at a press conference tomorrow with
David Kennard, an employee at the Ansell Perry glove plant in Massillon, Ohio; former GE
employee Kathryn Zielinski, who worked at the Willoughby Quartz Plant in Cleveland, Ohio;
ShirleyChapman, a textile worker at Pillowtex, in Kannapolis, North Carolina and Joe Rosel
Jr,. who is a steelworker at Bethlehem Steel's Corporation's Sparrows Point Mill in
Baltimore. They will discuss their opposition to the Republican Fast Track Bill, which
gives no assurance that worker rights and environmental protections will be included in
trade deals. usnewswire.com
GOP Holds Up Homeless Vets Bill December 4
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER (AP) Less than three weeks after Senate
Republicans dropped an anonymous hold on Sen. Paul Wellstone's homeless veterans bill, an
anonymous Republican has reinstated the hold. ``I can't believe it!'' a red-faced,
finger-pointing Wellstone shouted on the Senate floor Tuesday. dailynews.yahoo.com
Cancer for Christmas 4 Dec
U.S. /U.S. Newswire/ Campaign for
Tobacco-Free Kids: Cancer for Christmas: Philip Morris' Holiday Marketing Campaign
Shows Company Hasn't Changed. The following is a
statement of Matthew L. Myers, president, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: Philip Morris,
the nation's largest tobacco company, never misses an opportunity to claim that it has
changed and is now a responsible corporate citizen. However, the company's actions
repeatedly have failed to match its words. In the latest example, Philip Morris is taking
advantage of the holiday season to sell a new cigarette, called M, with the slogan "A
Special Blend for a Special Season." usnewswire.com
/ tobaccofreekids.org
Farm Groups Warn Congress of Catastrophic Loss of Family Farms 4 Dec U.S.
/U.S. Newswire/ Offer
Solutions for a Better Farm Bill.
As the inside-the-belt way debate over farm policy hits the floor of the U.S. Senate this
week, farmers across the nation are raising serious concerns about the future of families
that produce the food in this country. "Last year, the United States lost 20,000
family farmers while Cargill and ADM posted record profits, subsidized by billions of
taxpayer dollars," stated George Naylor, an Iowa grain farmer. "Unless the full
Senate significantly improves the farm bill approved by the Senate Agriculture Committee,
we will see more of the same corporate gouging and the hemorrhaging in the countryside
will only accelerate." usnewswire.com
The Mouth That Erred December 3, 2001
by Harley Sorensen With all
due respect, George W. Bush really ought to watch his mouth. I'm not referring to the
Bushisms he made famous during last year's presidential campaign. Those were mostly slips
of the tongue, seized upon by his political opponents. Nor am I referring to his major
faux pas of calling America's campaign against terrorists and their neighbors a
"crusade." No, I'm referring to ways in which he really screwed up. I'll mention
two of them. sfgate.com
Still Time to Impeach the Supreme Court Five Dec, 3, 2001
thenation The media consortium review of disputed Florida
presidential ballots concluded that George W. Bush would have won the recount the US
Supreme Court blocked. So is the debate on the Court's intervention over? No way, says
Vincent Bugliosi, the trial lawyer who wrote The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme
Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President (Nation Books). He spoke with John
Nichols, Nation Washington correspondent. thenation.com
Senate Rejects Arctic Drilling Again, 94-1 December 3,
2001 Sometimes watching Congress feels
like going through the looking glass with Alice. To be sure, today's events certainly were
"curiouser and curiouser." As if attaching drilling in the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge and a ban on human cloning to a bill on railroad retirement plans weren't
weird enough, the day ended with even Arctic drilling's most vocal sponsor, Frank
Murkowski, the junior senator from Alaska, voting against his own amendment in the Senate
as it went down in flames, 94 to 1. This is politics at its most bizarre. wilderness.org
Lesson of Enron: Electricity Deregulation is a Disaster, Says Foundation
for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights Dec. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ The fall of energy giant
Enron should trigger the end of electricity deregulation in California and throughout the
country, according to consumer advocates with the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer
Rights (FTCR). Enron's demise demonstrates the unnecessary volatility that deregulation
brought to the California energy system. usnewswire.com
The Witch Hunt December 3, 2001
By BOB
HERBERT Twenty
years ago The New York Times ran a story out of Buenos Aires that mentioned a woman who
was "small and wiry and full of hate for the Argentine government. "The woman
told how men had broken into her house five years earlier and taken her adult son away.
Three months later the men visited her family's newsstand and took away her daughter. nytimes.com
Earthjustice Statement On Fast Track (Trade Promotion Authority)
Dec.
5 /U.S. Newswire/ Environmental leaders and members of Congress held a press conference
today to denounce fast track trade negotiation legislation (H.R. 3005) introduced by Ways
and MeansChairman Bill Thomas (R-Calif.) that is scheduled
for a vote on Thursday 12/6/01. In particular, speakers discussed the threats that the
Thomas bill poses to environmental laws and regulations at home and abroad. usnewswire.com
AFL-CIO Chief Says Bush Waging War on Workers
December 3, 2001 By Peter Szekely (Reuters)
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney urged union leaders on Monday to "take the offensive
in a war here at home" against the president, congressional Republicans and
corporations who he accused of waging a war on workers. iwon.com
Legal Scholars Criticize Wording Of
Bush Order Accused Can Be Detained Indefinitely December 3,
2001 By George Lardner Jr. President
Bush's order empowering him to initiate military trials for suspected foreign terrorists
also appears to permit the indefinite detention, without trial, of anyone the president
determines is "subject" to the order, according to constitutional scholars and
legal experts who have studied the directive. washingtonpost.com
Bush Team Seeks Broader Surveillance Powers December 2, 2001
By Jim McGee The Bush administration is asking Congress for a second major expansion of federal
surveillance powers that legal experts say would radically change laws that have long
protected the rights of Americans. washingtonpost.com
Justice Deformed: War and the Constitution
December 2,
2001 The inconvenient thing about the American system of justice is that we are
usually challenged to protect it at the most inopportune moments. Right now the country
wants very much to be supportive of the war on terrorism, and is finding it hard to summon
up much outrage over military tribunals, secret detentions or the possible mistreatment of
immigrants from the Mideast. There is a strong temptation not to notice. That makes it
even more important to speak up. nytimes.com
Tribunal Comparison Taints Courts-Martial, Military Lawyers Say
December 2, 2001
By WILLIAM GLABERSON Former military lawyers say they are angered by a public perception,
fed most recently by the top White House lawyer, that the military tribunals authorized by
President Bush are merely wartime versions of American courts-martial, a routine part of
military life with a longstanding reputation for openness and procedural fairness. nytimes.com
Democrats
wary of Bush's plan for military tribunals
December 02, 2001 By PETER URBAN The Bush
administration's plan to use military tribunals to prosecute foreign terrorists is drawing
a wary eye from congressional Democrats. The Senate Judiciary Committee has called
Attorney General John Ashcroft to appear Thursday to explain why Congress was not
consulted. Meanwhile, several dozen House members, including Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-3,
warned in a letter last week that they may try to block funding for any of these
tribunals. connpost.com
Senate to vote Monday on Arctic refuge drilling Dec. 2,
2001 By TOM DOGGETT, Reuters A key part of the Bush
administration's national energy plan, opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil
drilling, faces its first Senate vote late Monday. chron.com
Federal deficit predicted for rest of
Bush's term December 1, 2001 By
RON HUTCHESON and JACKIE KOSZCZUK Knight Ridder
The federal budget will probably remain in deficit
for the rest of President Bush's term because of wartime expenses and a stalling economy,
Budget Director Mitch Daniels said Wednesday.The deficit forecast was a dramatic turnabout
after four consecutive years of government surpluses. cbs11tv.com
Sen. Reid: Republican
Stimulus Is 'Show Business' December
1, 2001
(Reuters) A Senate Democrat said on Saturday Republican plans to stimulate the economy
following the Sept. 11 attacks are pure "show business," favoring aid for big
corporations over help for laid off workers. news1.iwon.com
Special Education Bill Killed
December 1, 2001 (AP) Democrats blasted a successful Republican
effort to block billions in guaranteed funding increases for disabled students but say
they'll come up with a new proposal next week.``Congress had found tens of billions of
dollars to bail out the airlines, help energy companies and give tax breaks to profitable
corporations in the last few months,'' said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif. ``But when
children with special needs show up, we shut the door.'' nytimes.com
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