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Author: Wayétu Moore Graywolf Press, 272 pages, $26 “I come for you,” Satta said, spitting on the ground in front of Papa. “You and your daughters.” Satta, dressed in fatigues with a military-grade rifle slung over her shoulder, is carrying a jug of palm oil and a bag of fresh native greens. It’s 1991 and for 5-year-old Wayétu Moore, this is a moment burned indelibly into her psyche. An expanding civil war in Liberia had forced Wayétu and her father, grandmother and two sisters to hurriedly leave the capital, Monrovia, and walk for days with little food or water into the backland...

Letters from readers: Moody’s report is partisan attack on schools Letters from readers Moody’s report is partisan attack on schools The Third Interim Report of the Twentieth Statewide Grand Jury, empaneled by Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, singled out for harsh criticism Duval County public schools and other urban school systems that have elected superintendents with the "surgical precision" the public has come to expect from Republicans when they seek to undermine public institutions that broadly assist minorities and people of modest means. The report’s language is inflammato...