Word: boarding
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...felt it was important to stage a bipartisan show of support for the American judiciary, which has taken a drubbing since the Florida Supreme Court ruled to extend secretary of state Katherine Harris' certification deadline. Even Florida judge Charles Burton, the long-suffering head of the Palm Beach canvassing board, flew up to see the show...
...whip like senior execs. "We're coming together like we did for the first five years," says RZA. "We see each other at least three times a week, with everybody aware of everything we're doing." Divine, meanwhile, is pushing the group to begin acting as a formal board of directors. The plan is to hire managers to run the business and keep the chubby W on only the handful of products that the entire band endorses...
...test," some schools are offering more challenging course work as a way of engaging students. In the past three years, scores of elementary schools in high-stakes testing states such as Texas, Virginia and Massachusetts have added Latin programs. Says Allen Griffith, a member of the Fairfax City school board: "If we're trying to improve English skills, teaching Latin is an awfully effective, proved method...
There is at least one conclusion to be drawn at this point in the presidential race: people love to get creative with poster board and sticks. Florida's zealous protesters have occupied street corners since Nov. 8, and their signs have been getting progressively craftier and goofier. By last Friday, rabble rousers even besieged the front porch of the U.S. Supreme Court. Of course, there is the occasional misspelling, e.g., WINNERS NOT WINERS. And in our strictly nonpartisan view, Republicans seem to be winning the poster...
Proponents of women's colleges say they still serve a need for some students, but it seems that they are declining in popularity. According to this year's College Board survey, just 4% of young women expressed interest in applying to all-female schools--the lowest percentage in 12 years. Faced with fewer women applicants, Emmanuel College in Boston and Notre Dame College of Ohio in Cleveland this fall announced they would begin admitting men in 2001. Since 1997, four other women's colleges have gone coeducational. And in July, Trinity College in Burlington, Vt., announced it would close. While...