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...district in Illinois tried to require eighth-graders to pass the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills before they could go on to high school. Of 172 students, three-quarters flunked. After realizing the impracticality of flunking so many (and withstanding a shower of complaints from furious parents), the school board put off its promotion plan for another year. Chicago's policy, meanwhile, has failed to put a dent in the city's number of poorly performing students. Last month school officials said that 30,424 third-, sixth- and eighth-graders failed to score well enough this year to avoid summer...
...strong month because of tax refunds and IRA contributions, a net $25 billion flowed into mutual funds, according to the Investment Company Institute. But that's down slightly from last April, and this year income tax refunds were at record levels. And thanks to a 2% across-the-board drop on Wall Street during the month, May is looking like a loser, with just $10 billion flowing in, according to market tracker Trim Tabs...
What went wrong? The official probe by the National Transportation Safety Board could take months. But the unofficial finger pointing got under way almost immediately. "The worst contributing factor was the pilot's decision to go into that weather and land," says former Department of Transportation inspector general Mary Schiavo. "At a certain point, you have to say the weather wins." Co-pilot Michael Origel, who survived the crash, disagrees. He told investigators Friday that the plane approached through a break in the clouds and that the runway was largely visible at all times. But if the plane was facing...
...white law school. He also got it to strike down Texas' whites-only primary elections. And he prevailed on the court to stop Virginia from ordering blacks traveling through on interstate buses to move to the back of the bus. But Marshall's greatest victory was in Brown v. Board of Education. That landmark ruling, handed down on May 17, 1954, held that "separate but equal" public schools for blacks and whites violated the Constitution. It caused a firestorm as the South vowed "massive resistance" to school integration. When Marshall appeared on NBC's Youth Wants to Know, Georgia stations...
...Alcoholics Anonymous grew, Wilson became its principal symbol. He helped create a governing structure for the program, the General Service Board, and turned over his power. "I have become a pupil of the A.A. movement rather than the teacher," he wrote. A smoker into his 70s, he died of pneumonia and emphysema in Miami, where he went for treatment in 1971. To the end, he clung to the principles and the power of anonymity. He was always Bill W., refusing to take money for counseling and leadership. He turned down many honors, including a degree from Yale. And he declined...