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Get the top news photos and video on The New York TImes. Around the country teachers afraid to discipline students and administrators afraid to fire poor performing teachers. Countless school activity is being cut all because of the fear of lawsuits.

As if the disaster itself isn t bad enough, now reports are swirling in the hardest hit countries of burglaries, rapes and even kidnappings. DAN WALKER, MISSING BOY S FATHER When you receive this kind of information you are pulled into a very strange world in some way and there is hope, an unpleasant hope, but at the same time there s fear and that doesn t feel good. My Take it may strike somebody as strange that we re even discussing lawlessness when there s such a crisis of such enormous proportion going on here in Southeast Asia, but where there is good like the relief efforts, the donations, the stories of strangers helping out strangers, inevitably history shows there is also unfortunately evil.

Is that a good idea for these children to be supplanted Is that the right solution. So joining us now, Richard Walden, the CEO of Operation USA, a non government organization helping out with this relief effort. It is what we call the number of people affected by the tragedy and that s in the tens of millions.

So you have to overlay ethnic and political tensions with all of that, plus down to the individual level. And if you re looking for ways to find out how you can help the relief effort by donating to Save The Children, Operation USA and other organizations, just log on to our Web site, abramsreport. And I have done several studies, doctoral students have done several studies here without any outside funding or any outside slant and we have two primary findings that count for what the Common Good seems to be suggesting. Two, the outcomes of this litigation, who is winning has been in favor of schools consistently both in the early period as well as in the more recent period. DANIELS OK, we re going to get back to that in just a moment, but Philip, you ve been very patient. Rather, we should look at segments of education litigation.

We are being hijacked so to speak. One, it is sometimes easier for an administrator to justify dropping whatever the particular activity may be because if they play preventive law they may save money and prevent litigation.

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KEVIN O REILLY, ATTORNEY FOR KENNEDY SMITH S ACCUSER via phone. DANIELS So obviously you are not too happy about the outcome here, but first tell us what was the judge s basis for throwing out the case at such an early stage. Basically, the distinction came down to whether someone suffering rape trauma syndrome is in a similar position as someone suffering a physical ailment. Rape to a supposed independent investigator at Dr.

He was intimidating her out of making this report.

The common thread between all those recipients, they re all black males involved with white females. They ll be trying to come up with a demographic and a psychological profile based upon a review of the letters. Has that threat been consistent Has it escalated over the last two years Is there any indication that the writer has required weapons That he stalked or surveilled his victims. You know, you or I or anybody else can just vent.

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I ve always had the highest respect for criminal defense attorneys. Their clients are Rehab for drug abuse despicable murderers who have no respect for life and death. Criminals whom frankly I ve had no desire to ever represent, but there are people out there who are willing to represent these clients, not because they agree with what their clients did but because they believe in the criminal justice system.

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That blast killing people, of them little children. So I ve had my say, now it s time for Your Rebuttal. I hope I didn t catch Gore lesly by watching you tonight. Poor man, take care of yourself. Well Mary, it looks like he did take your advice and of course from all of us we hope that Dan is feeling a lot better.

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