(article) When Bullying Backfires: Asperger’s Student Voted Homecoming Princess

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Another example of how positive, constructive action can trump the tired

old adversarial in-yer-face approaches to anti-bullying advocacy.

When Bullying Backfires: Asperger’s Student Voted Homecoming Princess

14-year-old Sampson has been voted homecoming princess at her

high school in Poway in southern California. has Asperger’s

Syndrome; as her mother, Kathleen Sampson, says of her, “ has a

lot of friends, but she doesn’t socialize outside of school, that’s a

little too difficult for her right now.” As a cruel prank, some students

put ’s name on the ballot for homecoming princess. But then, after

other students learned about this, they rallied and voted for —

and she won.

more...

http://www.care2.com/causes/when-bullying-backfires-aspergers-student-voted-home\

coming-princess.html

Enjoy,

~CJ

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" Scalia, confident in his own infallibility, dissented. As he wrote in a

religious journal in 2002, he does not find the death penalty immoral,

and he believes that as the “minister of God,” government has powers to

get “revenge” and “execute wrath.” He’s clearly more an Old Testament

guy than New, or he would know that some prisoners get falsely accused

and nailed to the cross ( 26:59-66). "

from ation in Evil, by Maureen Dowd

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/dowd-cooperation-in-evil.html