Word: charter
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...Atlanta. They call it suburban blight, a strip-malled world void of rituals like walking to a store or enjoying an attractive building. "We want our four children to grow up in a community, not at a highway exit," says Amanda, 33, a nurse. Michael, 34, director of a charter school in Durham, N.C., says their yen to escape grew urgent this year as alienated kids shot up suburban schools in Colorado and Georgia...
...president and Fellows make up the Harvard Corporation, which is invested with ultimate control over the University by colonial charter. This board approves appointments and oversees the allotment of millions of dollars in each year's operating budget...
...worries stemmed from a battle waged by then-Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell, Class of 1877, who in 1930 asked the Corporation to relieve him from signing Radcliffe diplomas, a duty required of the University president since the Board of Overseers approved the Radcliffe charter...
...limits of corporate convention. German and American bosses are fusing their cultures on napkins in airport lounges and in the conference rooms of five-star hotels. The transatlantic traffic became so heavy that DaimlerChrysler, which owns 20% of Airbus, bought an A320 and outfitted it like an NBA charter so its executives could get some sleep between meetings. The 53-seat plane (an A320 normally has 150 seats) flies four weekly round trips between Stuttgart, Germany, and Auburn Hills, Mich...
School reform in the form of charter schools and vouchers will help students cross that bridge to the 21st century. As Lisa Keegan, the state superintendent of education for Arizona, said of school reform, "It's public education in the finest sense of the word: It serves the public, not the bureaucracy." School choice will help alleviate the crisis in American public education Vasant M. Kamath '02, a Crimson editor, is a government concentrator in Thayer Hall...