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Franklin began reforming itself before President George W. Bush signed No Child Left Behind in January 2002. The school, two 1950s-era brick buildings in this old Mississippi River town on the eastern edge of Iowa, had been on a lower-profile statewide watch list because of below-average scores on the Iowa Test of Basic Skills. Then it was grandfathered onto the list of schools that failed under the new federal criteria. That public branding, along with the threat of new sanctions, layered on the anxiety. "When [Franklin] was listed in the Des Moines (Iowa) Register as a failed...
...designer, 40, is perhaps already more influential among fashion's Young Turks than those brands are. The disheveled-1950s-housewife look that stalked runway after runway last week, for example, first appeared in Jacobs' spring 2003 show. And renditions of his brightly colored accessories have recently turned up in mass venues like the Gap (for which a onetime Jacobs accessory designer now works). "He certainly has made it really cool to look back to the past, and now other designers are following him in the way they put together a collection," says Julie Gilhart, vice president and fashion director...
Fans of I Love Lucy, rejoice: Lucille Ball has been reincarnated, and she goes by the name Ray Romano. Like his (and her) hit CBS sitcom, Romano’s first foray into the world of live action movies is straight out of the 1950s, in ways both amiably amusing and jarringly old-fashioned...
...Jack and Mary Grace are still too little to reach the 40 inches required for either ride, never mind ?Space Mountain.? Jack and Mary Grace loved ?Dumbo,? and I, an adult parent in a dicey world, want to freeze them in their ?Dumbo? age. It?s a nice, little, 1950s kind of ride, and it?s got a line around the block. That?s because there are a lot of Jacks and Mary Graces in the world, and a lot of other trepidatious parents, and ?Dumbo,? as he rises and falls and goes round and round, transports them all into...
...victim described the suspect as a white male in his mid-30s, with a dark complexion, black hair and a heavyset build, wearing a gray ski jacket, light blue jeans and a knit cap. He was riding a 1950s-style bicycle with wide handlebars, according to the advisory...