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Maryland Page 6b Wednesday, November 14, 2001: The Sun Gregory Kane Speaking of judgment, take the City Council not good ones, anyway unless they are functional in reading and i math. fy An odd set of priorities for public servants. Since they haven't an- swered the Russo question, here's -another, along with a challenge: Have you taken the functional math and readingtests? Knot, please do, along with the func- tional algebra and geometry tests that will soon be graduation requirements. Here's hoping your i math reasoning is better than yourT political judgment. Kane, from Page 1b groups? No one in Rwanda? None of the so-called rebels in Sierra Leone who murder, rape and maim? Just the United States? Here's one question that everybody can automatically answer: Does the World Court sound like a disinterested and unbiased body? Absolutely not! Another question the peaceniks ask (they've got a million of 'em) is this: Can one be patriotic and question the war against terrorism? (This is followed by moans of sympathy for civilian casualties rorist who's been found guilty of terrorism in an international court.

The answer was revealing. "In 1986," the e-mailer proudly wrote, "the World Court found the U.S. guilty of terrorizing Nicaragua." Let's be clear about this. With all the terrorism that's gone on in the world since 1986, the only "terrorist" an international court has "convicted" has been the United States government? Not bin Laden? No one from Hamas, Islamic Jihad, al-Qalda, Hezbollah or any other Arab terrorist benefit of all kinds of doubts among American left-wingers, who aren't even ashamed about letting their bias show. One e-mailed me about the need for us to stop bombing the "poor" country of Afghanistan as If being poor makes it OK for the Taliban to harbor terrorists and murder their own people and suggested we should be trying to take O-Slimy bin Laden to the World Court.

I took the bait and posed a question of my own: Name one ter ualties in Afghanistan? On a more local level, here's a question for members of our illustrious Baltimore City Council, the original "punt-on-first-down" crew: When will they insist that Carmen Russo, the schools' chief executive officer, come before them and answer questions about the dismal performance of city students who took the most recent functional math and reading tests? The results of those tests must be a painful reminder to Baltimore citizens. Only 62 percent of students in grades six through 12 passed the reading test. The passing rate for the math test an embarrassingly easy, sixth grade-level measure of basic arithmetic was 18 percent. We haven't heard a peep from the council about this horrid state of affairs. When police Commissioner Ed Norris fired Deputy Commissioner Barry Powell and Col.

James Hawkins this past spring, you couldn't get this bunch to shut up. They huffed and puffed and harrumphed and demanded that Norris appear before' them with an explanation. Apparently the jobs of Powell and Hawkins mean more to this body than the future of Baltimore students, who will have no jobs Scholarships honor; 6 Hopkins alumni kiUedSept.ll inAfghanistan.) It's not their patriotism that's suspect, but their judgment. This is not the case where Lyin' Lyndon Johnson, in the summer of 1964, shucked and jived the American people and the U.S. Senate into supportingthe Gulf of Tonkin resolution which escalated the Vietnam War and gave LB a blank check to bomb North Vietnam by claiming attacks on two American naval ships that never occurred.

This war came after a deliberate attack on American soil that killed thousands. President Bush waited nearly a month and gave the Taliban a clear option: Hand over bin Laden, or bad things will happen. The first bombs landed Oct. 7. As of this date, the Taliban have had 38 days to comply.

They could have handed bin Laden over the first day, today or any day in between. They chose not to. So who's really to blame for any civilian cas We need your help to serve our annual Thanksgiving dinner and provide additional hot meals or other essential services to hungry, hurting and homeless people in the Baltimore area this fall. For just $1.79 you can provide a hot meal, or help provide the safe shelter, clean clothes and Christian guidance that can be the start of a new life. Please help us feed and care for hungry, hurting and homeless people by mailine vour gift today.

i Op The Johns Hopkins University announced yesterday the creation i of two scholarship programs by its- Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and -Sciences in memory of six alumni killed during the terrorist attacks Sept. 11. The alumni are Thomas Cahill, Class of 1987; Paul Class of 1978; Matt Class of 1984; David W. Nelson, Class of 1973; and Glenn Wall, Class of 1984, all graduates of the, School of Arts and Sciences; John Sammartlno, who earned his master's degree in 1990 from the Whiting School of Engineering. -1, One of the funds will provide full tuition for any of the five children of the six victims who attend the i Krieger school.

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