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Barksdale, 56, and his wife Sally gave $100 million to their alma mater, the University of Mississippi, to promote reading in the state that ranks last in literacy (a third of its adults can't read a sports story or a map). The couple's donation will provide every child from kindergarten through Grade 3 with the sort of help with reading that got Barksdale launched...
...Sally Barksdale had been thinking about ways they could promote literacy in Mississippi. Richard Thompson, the state superintendent of education, says he read about the Barksdales' interest in a newspaper, "so I called Jim up." After long conversations, a joint venture was created between Ole Miss, the state department of education and seven other state universities. The effort, says Barksdale, will attack illiteracy "at the source," in the early grades. It will also teach illiterate parents to read, so they can help their kids...
Even if the prosecution can make a damning case, it may not be able to touch Skakel. Since the alleged crime was committed when he was a minor, the case resides in Connecticut juvenile court. Under today's state law, a capital case involving a 15- year-old would automatically be remanded to an adult court. But 1975 law required probable cause for that to happen. If the case stays in juvenile court, Skakel would probably draw no jail time even if convicted. (The model in 1975 was juvenile rehabilitation.) If the case is remanded, Sherman has the right...
...product content and maverick innovation in the trenches, would be impossible to maintain in a conglomerate such as Viacom. So while the breadth of a firm such as AOL Time Warner, with holdings in varied markets, may seem more daunting than a group of nerdy guys from Washington State, Microsoft remains a force to be reckoned with...
Since its reinstatement in the U.S. in 1977, the death penalty has remained one of the handful of soul-defining issues that can be reduced to a simple question: for or against? But in the 38 states that use capital punishment, ways to deal with flaws in its administration are not so cut-and-dried. Last Sunday, Illinois became the first state to address such problems by banning the measure - albeit temporarily - when Governor George Ryan announced an indefinite moratorium on executions pending an investigation into the state's justice system. The last straw came last week when...