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...allocation of $1,700 for a charter bus between Harvard Square and New York came in a bill written by Michael S. Ovadia...
...group of college guys unhappy with the superficiality of the Washington, D.C. gay scene founded Delta Lambda Phi. Twelve years later, a similar frustration with local gay life compelled eight area students to bring DLP to Boston. In 2001, they finally received an official charter, establishing the Alpha Chi chapter. Alpha Chi currently consists of eight active members, six pledges and six involved alumni, hailing from Boston University, MIT, Tufts and several other institutions. The national organization now has 20 chapters, concentrated primarily in the Northeast and on the West Coast...
Tightly controlled countries like North Korea typically stonewall such sensitive inquiries. So the admission did more than just confirm long-held suspicions in Washington that North Korea, a charter member in Bush's "axis of evil," had pursued weapons of mass destruction despite a 1994 agreement to stop. The revelation also jerked a preoccupied world to attention. Why, everyone wondered, was Kim confessing now? And why had Bush pressed the issue, when he was already immersed in two major global confrontations? No wonder the Administration sat on the news for 12 days while it scrambled to figure...
...charter plane carrying Wellstone, his wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three staffers and two pilots, went down in a wooded area near Eveleth-Virginia Municipal Airport, about 175 miles north of Minneapolis. All eight passengers were confirmed dead. Wellstone was on his way to the funeral of the father of a state lawmaker. The plane, identified as a King Air, is a twin-engine turboprop made by Raytheon...
...often checks in with teachers and enforces strict rules at home about homework and uniforms. With her daughter Shaliah, 12, about to enter seventh grade, Denmark closely followed news reports on Chancellor Beacon Academies, the private company designated to take over her neighborhood school. Shaliah had been attending a charter school that Denmark says turned her off with its use of uncertified teachers and its "arrogant leadership." But Denmark, who works for a mortgage firm, was impressed by what she heard about Chancellor Beacon's success in other states: last year Florida's education department awarded the company's schools...