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...town wasn't incorporated as a city until 1846, when residents, after defeating a plan to separate off East Cambridge and Cambridgeport from the city properly, vowed to unify the city forever by applying for a city charter. That charter was granted by the state legislature on March...
...subject of school choice. It has been touted as an all-purpose panacea: let parents shop around and they will reward good schools over bad, forcing the bad ones to play catch-up, thus improving quality overall. President Clinton has embraced this idea in the form of "charter schools"--public schools that throw out all the rules, including union rules, and start over--and some local teachers' unions have slowly come around to endorsing these experiments. But the unions draw the line (as has the President, so far) at giving students public funds to attend private schools, including religious schools...
...Madison last fall, teachers stopped writing college recommendations for seniors after they had worked nine months without a new contract. Yet even the N.J.E.A, says Lynne Strickland, director of the Garden State Coalition, a lobbying group for 118 suburban school districts, is making some "midcourse corrections" and now supports charter schools...
STUTTGART, Germany: What will NATO do when the Warsaw Pact is gone? U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher proposed Friday that the western military alliance sign up Russia and the former Soviet allies, its former opponents. Christopher is not offering Russia full NATO membership, but rather wants NATO's charter to reflect standing arrangements for consultation and cooperative action between Russia and the alliance, including joint training and involvement of Russia in peacekeeping activities. While Christopher might be trying to compensate a Russia nervous about NATO's continuing campaign to bring Eastern European nations into the alliance...
...developments do not augur well for the people of Iraq or stability in the region," said Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa. Egypt, he declared, was "really disturbed" by the situation. Syria's Foreign Ministry issued an even stronger statement, calling the attack "an action that violates the U.N charter and international law." Only Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, the countries that benefited most from the Gulf War, appeared to give U.S. actions support. But the Saudi government would not allow U.S. planes based in the Kingdom to participate in the strikes, probably out of fear of retaliation. Many Arab countries feel...