Word: charters
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...plan to start similar classes next spring. The growing movement of institutions for kids in atheist families also includes Camp Quest, a group of sleep-away summer camps in five states plus Ontario, and the Carl Sagan Academy in Tampa, Fla., the country's first Humanism-influenced public charter school, which opened with 55 kids in the fall of 2005. Bri Kneisley, who sent her son Damian, 10, to Camp Quest Ohio this past summer, welcomes the sense of community these new choices offer him: "He's a child of atheist parents, and he's not the only...
...team that takes the Bonds bait. It's bad enough we'll have to suffer through his trial, unless he takes an unexpected plea. Do we also want to see him sitting in a San Francisco courtroom by day, and catching a charter to a game by night, a la Kobe Bryant during his 2004 rape case? (The charges against Bryant were later dismissed.) Of course not. And if that kind of spectacle drives fans crazy, imagine how it could destroy a clubhouse. Even for a dreadful team like the Devil Rays, that's a lot to lose...
...even more fundamental challenge is to convince the government and the public that the BBC should continue to exist largely as is after its present 10-year charter expires in 2016. For almost two decades, the BBC expanded its operations rapidly as it tried to adapt to convulsive changes in technology and viewing habits. It funded these adventures with cash from license payers. It was already beginning to slim down again when, in 2006, the government limited increases in license fees over the next six years, leaving the broadcaster with a $4 billion shortfall. Cutting jobs and selling property will...
...been fighting a losing battle from the start. The outcome of several turbulent weeks of fracas is a precarious truce with administrators in which, if anything, the UC has less financial autonomy than before. Technically, according to its founding charter passed by the Faculty of Arts and Science (FAS) in 1982, the UC should be allowed to exercise complete independence in spending its money, subject only...
...ruse. No one became president of anything that day, despite all the old crap that Faust managed to accumulate in the course of the ceremony. The Charter of the Harvard Corporation, vintage 1650, is really just a chunk of parchment. The keys to the University—which, I’m told, open nothing but the Mass. Hall liquor cabinet—are barely even symbolic. It’s nice to think that handing over a couple pieces of silver could change history, but that’s clearly never been the case...