telephone and they also have the cell phone, and they also have e-mail. and, of course, text. they could lol this all the way through. so we know that there are other forms of communication. the objective here was, in some way, i believe, the intent appears to have been to show the child that what he was doing was not appreciated by the teacher. unfortunately, though, what gets lost in this is that this is apparently a child who does need some correction, so i m hopeful while the parents are upset the way the teacher communicated the information that the information itself is not lost in the communication. hopefully, it doesn t backfire. you re right, the child s work which clearly needs some help, that is being completely lost in this debate at this point. parents call mean all fired up about something in the way in which one of my teachers expressed it to the child but the fact remains that there was a reason why an expression needed to be made.
but as we said, for more for more than four decades, gadhafi s shrewd and merciless tactics maintained a grip on his country and his opponents are not about to underestimate him now. ben wedeman joins me live on the phone. ben, what are you hearing about this deal we are getting a little word of from the opposition on the ground there? reporter: according to members of the opposition, they heard about this so-called proposal, whereby, moammar gadhafi would be allowed to step down with honor. they heard about it through the media. however, they are very hesitant to even publicly discuss any sort of proposal coming from moammar gadhafi. their feeling is they cannot trust this man and they continue to insist their goal is one way or another to topple him from power.
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