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...estate. It could be worth a lot, especially if a civil suit against the police department succeeds. It will be the Diallo family's chance to make the city accountable for the acts of the SCU, which one TV commentator called an "unindicted co-conspirator." Even some cops expect a day of reckoning. Says a Brooklyn sergeant: "If there is anyone who should have been on trial, it is the department. Those guys went out for numbers--they didn't go out to kill anyone--but the department wants guns and numbers...
Estes takes his cues from Chicago's controversial "structured curriculum," a scripted day-by-day lesson plan given to the city's 27,400 teachers last fall by the board of education. Though the program is voluntary for now, administrators expect all teachers to draw on it. And they're pushing it on poorly performing teachers and the thousands of rookie teachers and substitutes who flow into the district each year, many of whom are asked to teach subjects for which they were not trained. "As a new teacher, I like it because it does all the brainstorming...
...think parents should encourage children of all ages to attend funerals and other death rituals, but should not force them. Explain what the child can expect to see, what he should do and how others might act. My young friend Martha, her siblings and her young cousins were encouraged to attend the funerals of their grandmothers, and those kids who declined were given other options, such as visiting the grave site or church after the services were over. Martha's family also worked together to create "memory boxes" as a way to memorialize their grandmothers, with each child contributing stories...
...Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times." In both cities, after decades of steady increases, crime rates have fallen dramatically--due, in no small measure, to the efforts of the police. Yet at a time when they might expect to be glorified for that success, they find themselves vilified for some of the tactics and strategies used to achieve...
...Analysts expect Wynn, who is gradually losing his sight to a degenerative eye disease called retinitis, to reject Kerkorian's bid as too little when the board meets this week. "There's no question that the offer isn't high enough," says a Mirage insider. "The real question is, What do we want to be when we grow up?" Translation: unless Wynn can win over Wall Street, his long-term chances of evading a predator like Kerkorian could be just a mirage...