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...situation. Thanks to The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 and the local school district’s “Title I School Improvement” status, we have an entire building full of federally funded posterboard, copy machines, and as of my last visit, several new SMART Boards. My English department, also sponsored by federal funds, just purchased thousands of dollars worth of literature. Most of my students, however, do not need copy machines and an edition of Anna Karenina. They first need to know that a period comes before quotation marks and that a paragraph...
...profit is far from his greatest satisfaction, he says. That comes from the monthly visits he makes to the stables with his 5-year-old son to visit Pocket Money. Sometimes, the horse is sad and his son puzzles over the sprinter's mood. But the day after a Pocket Money victory, there are smiles all around. "You can see it on the horse's face," says Lo. "You know that he's proud." And that's a look any horse owner would say is priceless...
Representatives from UBS will visit Harvard’s Faculty Club on Nov. 14 to recruit summer interns for their firm. They will advertise the fact that UBS is one of the world’s leading investment banks and that it manages assets worth well over $2 trillion. But there is one aspect of UBS’s operations that might escape mention at the recruitment session: The bank plays an important role in underwriting the supporters of Sudan’s genocidal government.The Swiss-based bank is arranging a massive stock offering that could raise more than...
...arrangement under which French Presidents have been paid. Indeed, even as leftist opponents sought to express indignation over the appearance of the rightist legislators sneaking a sweetheart raise to their leader, Sarkozy himself was defiantly unapologetic about the raise or its motives. "I want transparency," Sarkozy declared during a visit in Corsica, referring to the convoluted collection of revenues like advances on paid pensions that have long served to augment French Presidents' modest nominal salary of $12,000 monthly - to just what level is anyone's guess."I don't want that anymore. I want the French people to know...