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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (40573)	9/20/2005 9:44:57 AM
From: mph	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Holes Louis Sachar Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. 233 pages. $16.00 ISBN: 0-374-33265-7 Family/Friendship Reviewed by Katherine Barr -- Florida State University Found guilty of stealing a pair of sneakers that were to be auctioned off to raise money for the homeless, Stanley Yelnats is sent to Camp Green Lake, a correctional facility in an old lakebed that is now desert. He realizes that although the warden claims that digging builds character, the boys in the facility are actually looking for something in these holes. The key to this mystery is hidden in the relationship between Stanley's family and that of the Zeroni family, a tale that goes back four generations to Latvia when Stanley's great-great-grandfather broke a promise to Madame Zeroni. Hector Zeroni and Stanley meet at the camp, find themselves pitted against the warden and the other boys, and help each other survive in the desert thereby breaking Madame Zerone's curse on the Yelnats family. Although the outcome might be guessed, Sachar creates a suspenseful tale that keeps the reader cheering for Stanley and Hector as the boys overcome each obstacle in their path, including a crazed warden searching for treasure and the poisonous, yellow-spotted lizards living in holes in the desert. Holes won the 1999 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Excellence in Children's Literature in the fiction category.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (40573)	9/20/2005 10:22:49 AM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

This didn't happen to TED KENNEDY------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prison sentence for crash death September 20, 2005 Boston Globe Boston.com STAMFORD, Conn. --A man accused of leaving his girlfriend to die after his car ended up in a Stamford pond has been sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison. Francisco Loaiza, 30, of Stratford, had previously pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter with a motor vehicle. Before his sentencing Monday, Loaiza apologized for causing the accident. "Your honor, I just want to say I'm sorry," Loaiza said. "I hurt the person I loved and wanted to spend the rest of my life with." In the early morning hours of Jan. 15, Loaiza was driving a Nissan Altima on Weed Avenue in Stamford and speeding at more than 85 mph, Assistant State's Attorney Steve Weiss said. Loaiza lost control of the vehicle, struck a guard rail and drove into Holly Pond and fled on foot. It was later determined that Loaiza had a blood-alcohol level of .241, three times the legal limit of .08, Weiss said. Loaiza's passenger, Kristina Kalganova, a 21-year-old Russian immigrant, died when the car flipped over. An autopsy determined that Kalganova died of blunt head and neck trauma. Police stopped Loaiza as he was running from the scene. According to police reports, he was uncooperative and gave conflicting reports about whether any passengers were inside the car. ------ Information from: The Advocate, stamfordadvocate.com Ted-Kennedy needs to receive several thousand copies of this article....annually. To: dts32041 Ted Kennedy 317 Russell Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510 202/224-4543 2400 JFK Building Boston, MA 02203 617/565-3170 _______________________________________________________________ There is no expiration on murder charges. Ted Kennedy never had to stand trial for what he did and should. Talk about a set a laws for one class and another set of rules for another.