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...training in reading instruction prior to Success for All. "I had no background," she laughs. "And with this program, I had no choice." The rigor apparently pays off at test time. In a three-year University of Memphis study of local Success for All schools, scores surged past state averages. At Anthony Bowen School, administrators say the scores of more than 50% of the children have risen...
Billions of dollars are riding on the decision, expected by midyear. With federal recognition, Quiet Hawk's Paugussetts--factory and government workers, small-business owners and retirees--would become, in many respects, a sovereign nation and could, with the state's approval, open their casino. And not just any casino. Their preferred site would be on the Bridgeport waterfront--only 55 miles from New York City, and even nearer to the city's wealthy northern suburbs...
Quiet Hawk's Paugussetts have long been recognized as a tribe by the state of Connecticut, but that status required scant proof of lineage and carries few benefits. Only 10 of the modern Paugussetts live on the group's two reservations: a quarter-acre lot in the town of Trumbull and 106 acres in Colchester. There a metal gate blocks the gravel drive, and a NO TRESPASSING sign bars the curious from visiting the two mobile homes inside. A mailbox reads GOLDEN HILL...
B.J.U. looms large in the early-primary state of South Carolina, however, and almost every Republican presidential hopeful since Ronald Reagan has made a pilgrimage. Reagan was a special friend: his drive to reinstate the exemptions of 111 schools including B.J.U. was thwarted only by a Supreme Court ruling. Thus far, Bush is not so heavily invested. Says William Donohue, the head of the Catholic League and normally the first to detect any anti-Catholic slight: "The problem with Bush...is that he just doesn't get it. But I don't think he's a bigot." However, Donohue says...
Since testifying against former employer and Mob boss John Gotti, SALVATORE (Sammy the Bull) GRAVANO has been organized crime's No. 1 pariah. But turning state's evidence looks like petty theft when compared with the sins Gravano may have committed against Mafia style. Last week the former hit man, 54, was arrested with his wife, 24-year-old son and 27-year-old daughter and charged with financing an interstate drug ring that specialized in selling tabs of the rave drug Ecstasy to teenagers. Teenagers! Even worse, Gravano's alleged pushers were members of a white-supremacist youth gang...