Word: trails
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...Boston teenagers marched last Monday down the city's famed Freedom Trail, past Paul Revere's home, to the office of Massachusetts Governor Paul Cellucci. They were armed with 800 letters of protest and a simple demand: that the Governor sit for the standardized test that will soon decide which students graduate from the state's public high schools. When an aide told them there was no time in his schedule--the test takes more than 18 hours--the students handed over a poster-size report card on the Governor's program to raise academic performance. His marks: an incomplete...
...middle school history teacher from Cape Cod, Mass., who was suspended twice for boycotting the state exam. Back in Boston, the protesting students are amplifying their rebel yell. Their summer plans include gathering signatures on petitions, lobbying state politicians and taking a few more treks up the Freedom Trail. Maybe by that time, Cellucci will have loosened up his schedule--and brushed up on his 13th century Chinese history...
President Mohammed Khatami strides across the Mehrabad Airport tarmac to the salute of soldiers in ceremonial sashes. Mullahs in dark robes, bearded aides in suits with tieless shirts and militiamen carrying Kalashnikovs trail him up to Iran's equivalent of Air Force One--an old American-made Boeing 707 from before the Islamic Revolution. In minutes he is roaring off to a speech--it is an anniversary in the Iran-Iraq war--near the Iraqi border. There is no mistaking Khatami when he slips back from the front of the plane, wandering down through a cabin decorated in late-1970s...
...trail of blood seemed to be leading nowhere last week in the murder trial of Baltimore Ravens football star RAY LEWIS. In what court observers describe as a "kaleidoscope of confusion," district attorney PAUL HOWARD, trying his first case since being elected four years ago, is scrambling to salvage the remainder of his case after witnesses gave conflicting accounts about the stabbing deaths of two men last Super Bowl Sunday in Atlanta. The state's key witness, DUANE FASSETT, had driven the alleged getaway car. Pale and hyperventilating on the stand, he backed off earlier claims that he saw Lewis...
...Paper Trail...