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...that a lot of public-school teachers can only dream about. Parochial schools are free to reject applicants with a history as troublemakers. "If a child has a disciplinary problem or problems with drugs or weapons, they can just say no on the spot," says Valerie E. Lee, co-author of Catholic Schools and the Common Good. They can also expel unmanageable students more easily than public schools, which must observe a range of legal niceties that don't apply to the private sector...
Parochial schools have a better record of getting children whose parents did not attend college to take pre-college courses, like advanced math. According to Diane Ravitch, author of National Standards in American Education: A Citizen's Guide, their secret is no secret: a core curriculum. "Catholics don't ask parents what courses their children should take," she says approvingly. "They just assign them...
Predictably, they have started to do the same with Redux. "In Europe," says Dr. Stuart Rich, a cardiologist at Chicago's Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and a co-author of the recent New England Journal study, "the majority of people who have taken Redux were looking to lose 10 lbs. to 20 lbs. You can just imagine how popular this medication is going to be here...
What they can do, say the experts, is give obese patients a powerful head start on weight loss. Redux is revolutionary, explains author Levine, because "it overcomes the loss of confidence in one's own diet. The feeling that the drug gives you is the key." That's the attitude of Barbara Dorsett, the Red Lobster survivor: "I'm just so thankful they discovered this stuff," she says. "I felt so old and decrepit. It's like a new lease on life...
...author's message was headlined APOLOGY and inserted in 250 fresh-off-the-press children's books given to guests at last week's Congressional Black Caucus Foundation luncheon in Washington. "I apologize to you all for the atrocities which I and others committed against our race through gang violence," wrote Stanley ("Tookie") Williams, who in 1971 co-founded the nation's largest and arguably most violent street gang, the Crips. "I pray that one day my apology will be accepted...