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Wearing a trenchcoat, a male suspect broke into the store and took $1800 worth of merchandise, police said. He attempted to get in twice, smashing the front window and door. A security camera caught part of the incident on film, police said...
...nonetheless hindered at every turn by the inertial drag of school bureaucracy. California's education code runs to 6,000-plus pages. Most of it seems designed to generate more paper: local schools are required to send reams of forms to district offices before they can fix a broken window, change the school menu, take a class on a field trip or buy new textbooks. To make real innovations, Chan found herself perpetually fighting for waivers. In 1992, when California enacted a charter-school law, Chan was one of the first to apply. "We wanted the waiver of all waivers...
This has created a window of opportunity for potential rivals. (These rivals received a significant boost from the 1992 Cable Act, which requires that cable programmers like HBO and Showtime offer their services to any competing delivery system at comparable prices.) The oldest of these competitors is so- called wireless cable, which collects programming with large satellite dishes and sends it to homes via microwave transmitters. Wireless companies provide a low-cost alternative to cable in a number of cities, such as Houston, New York City and Cleveland, Ohio, but have traditionally been hampered by limited capacity (only about...
Then you can take a roll of toilet paper and decorate President Rudenstine's house. Imagine how excited he'll feel to look out his window the next morning to see little fluffy bits of paper hanging to his trees! "It's snowing!" he'll exclaim, darting out his front door with his robe and bunny slippers to stare in amazement. Just picture the tourists mobbing in for a shot of that...
...from the '80s are coming back, demanding that we pay them lots of attention. They promote their books in lectures at the Institute of Politics and at intimate heart-to-hearts in the Adams House Upper Common Room. Even worse, they suggest that we buy their books, now on window display at Harvard Book Store. Katie Roiphe and Elizabeth Wurtzel have both left their dubious high-heeled footprints around campus this fall, but neither PYT has carried away much of a following with her. (Exception: Some young women feel validated by a Roiphe or a Wurtzel, insisting that these...