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...system that is not sufficiently servicing the limited English proficient (LEP) students it claims to help. (The program at present is so convoluted, it puts the Core to shame.) Unfortunately, the proposed alternative is no less monolithic and carries with it undertones of racism and anti-immigrant bias to boot. Although it is clear that the existing system is misguided and badly applied, that Proposition 227 is seen as the best alternative is testimony to the utter disappointment parents have in the present public education system...
...Sunday's Tournament Final was about revenge, and a national championship to boot...
When a sport is transformed overnight by the arrival of new technology--graphite tennis racquets, fiber-glass vaulting poles, high-backed ski boots--the change makes everyone queasy. But performance trumps sentiment. The sport of speed skating is at one of those pivotal junctures, with good old tradition being upended by a Dutch contraption called the clap skate. Unlike the conventional skate heel, the heel of the clap skate's boot detaches from the blade like a one-way seesaw. The skater's heel lifts off the blade, lengthening the blade's contact time on the ice, then the blade...
...spins four times in the 0.77 of a second that he's airborne, lands on one foot with a force four times his weight, then sucks it up and launches again for the toe loop. In practice he routinely bends his blades, and he recently started skating in a boot sporting an outer layer of ballistic nylon, the stuff they use in bulletproof vests...
...kind of minesweeper too. Ever alert for good-looking female aides who might be hanging around the President too much, Lieberman gave them the boot before they could make trouble. A former White House aide told TIME that in late 1995 and early 1996, senior female staff members working for Lieberman transferred at least two pretty young women to jobs outside the White House because Clinton kept dropping by to flirt. When he "got too chatty with somebody, usually someone with a large chest, a couple of the older women would see she got moved," says the aide. That...