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...presidential campaign trail, Bob Dole has been promoting a plan to give 4 million low- and middle-income students vouchers worth $1,000 or $1,500 and usable for public, private or parochial schools. States and the Federal Government would split the $5 billion cost. While dead set against using public money to send children to private school, the White House supports a form of school choice in which parents could shop among competing public schools. That means magnet schools, which offer enhanced programs, or the independent "charter" schools, now found in many states, which set their own rules...
...biggest British band since the Beatles and the Stones, were two-thirds of the way through their latest U.S. tour when Noel, the less volatile one, hopped on a Concorde back to London three hours before a concert. Rumors of brotherly fisticuffs, drug use and (gasp!) a permanent split engulfed the British media. A London Times columnist said if the band is finished she'll "be lying on the floor, crying and wailing and gnashing my teeth...
This year's race will once again include an electronic scoreboard outside Weld Boat House that features split and finishing times. An additional scoreboard will be added this year at the start of the race at Magazine Beach, near the Boston University boat house...
Last November, jurors split down the middle trying to decide his fate after he was charged with faking a contract to collect $350,000 in nonexistent training expenses for a canceled bout...
...cinephile for familial reasons (my father, a self-educated individual had such an abiding love for silent film that my childhood was spent in front of 16-millimeter films) it seemed propitious to launch a course on French cinema. It began with an enrollment of 120, soon split into two sections ("realism" and "new wave"), and then ramified into seminar-topics ("auteur" theory, structural cinema, cinema of cruelty...). The course became something of a machine, what Gilles Deleuze would have called a "spiritual automaton" that engulfed its students and teachers. It quickly happened that for practical reasons my department asked...