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...cast her--well before the issue of her personal romantic preferences raised its irrelevant head--in Six Days, Seven Nights. For this is a castaway comedy with a stronger-than-usual admixture of action sequences thrown in to please her co-star's boyish fans. His Quinn is a charter pilot and social dropout. Her Robin is a nervous small-plane passenger and magazine editor. And they are forced to survive on a tropical island when their plane is forced down by a storm...
Bush has invested more than campaign time in black neighborhoods. In 1996, with T. Willard Fair, president of the Urban League of Greater Miami, he set up one of the state's first charter schools in Liberty City. The elementary school, entering its second year, is the centerpiece of Bush's sweeping education proposals for the state. "I think his experiences with Liberty City really shaped his thinking," says Beryl Roberts-Burke, head of the Florida Conference of Black State Legislators. Says Bush: "I would walk into the class, and a kid would come up to me and touch...
Brown had instant name recognition, but also voters liked his support for charter schools, his vow to revive the city's moribund downtown and his "zero tolerance" of crime. "I want people to feel safer," he says. "That's key to people moving here and staying here." Brown has visited nearly 100 neighborhood groups and won endorsements from the Sierra Club to the United Farm Workers...
Robin A. Harris, a sixth-grade teacher at the Benjamin Banneker Charter School in Cambridge and a member of the committee in 1994-95, ousted incumbent Alfred B. Fantini in the election by a margin of only 200 votes...
Since 1993, we have worked hard to improve education from preschool to postgraduate level. We expanded Head Start, created Goals 2000 to help states set high academic standards, expanded charter schools, focused Title 1 funds more on low-income children, while setting the same standards for those children as for all others, and made college affordable to everyone through grants, loans, scholarships and tax benefits...