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...world, Rudy Giuliani, in the wake of 9/11 and a bearish stock market, no less. Bloomberg has brought an unprecedented level of efficiency and transparency to New York City government. "The best thing is, he doesn't seem to be making decisions based on a four-year calendar," says Jonathan Bowles, research director at the Center for an Urban Future...
Unlike traditional summer schools, which usually provide remedial or enrichment courses, YRE extends the regular schedule through a calendar year. Many schools conduct 45-, 60-or 90-day sessions, with different student groups on overlapping schedules that provide short breaks in between. The program is most popular in California, which runs three-quarters of the nation's YRE schools. Los Angeles, where year-round programs were launched at two schools eleven years ago, now has 130,000 youngsters (23% of the city's 565,570 public school students) attending year-round classes in 95 schools at all levels. In nearby...
...idea clicked last December in Rio de Janeiro, where Supermodel Jerry Hall was posing for Photographer Annie Leibovitz for the March '85 cover of Vanity Fair. The session went so well that the pair decided to do a 1986 pinup calendar. There was no problem finding exposure: Workman Publishing took the calendar, Playboy a set of the photographs. Hall's seasonal poses run from a vision in lace (January) to Aunt Sam (July) to a Christmas gift (December). Observes Leibovitz of Mick Jagger's lady: "Jerry loves the camera." And vice versa...
...As long as the G.O.P. panders to the fanatics in the gun lobby, Americans will have to endure a senseless massacre every few months. Check your calendar for the next...
...Another reflection: The calendar said April 11, 2005 but the day, as it unfolded in Fenway, belonged as firmly to 2004 as Ronald Reagan's funeral, Shrek2, the Presidential election and the moment that Dave Roberts stole second base in the ninth inning of Game Four. Roberts said as much, afterwards, in explaining his presence on Monday: "This is the last hurrah for all of us. This is something I don't want to forget." Roberts, a half-season Sox, plays for San Diego now, but had elected to be in Beantown rather than in Chicago on Monday, helping...