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Local solutions Back off from the business of slapping failure labels on schools and imposing remedies. Leave school turnaround to the people who are closer to the students, but fund research into what works...
Determined to create something closer to a normal family life for their daughter, the Mikols applied to a new federal program that allowed Julia to retain Medicaid coverage while being cared for at home. After a lengthy bureaucratic struggle, Margaret and Yves became the first parents in New York and the second parents in the nation to take home a child on life support. "The process transformed my personality," says Margaret. "I had been a shy and timid person, and I became brassy and obnoxious. I changed into a beast to protect my child...
...last year, compared with Tickets.com's 76 million--it is fending off threats from every direction. Some of its biggest customers--concert promoters and professional sports leagues--are finding ways to sell their own tickets. Smaller ticketing outfits are attracting museums and concert halls with software that gives them closer fan connections. Worst of all, Ticketmaster arrived late to the secondary market--what used to be called scalping--which has gone legit and become very profitable. The result: no ticket is off-limits, and Ticketmaster is scrambling to shore up its once sure thing...
...editorial staff, said that the CEB received roughly 30 e-mails every hour with complaints, comments, and praise. The board tried to address all concerns and constantly worked to improve the game as it progressed, Goldenberg added. Members of the alliance said that the game drew them closer together. According to Matthew D. O’Brien ’07, second-in-command for Quincy, the members of the three war councils became good friends. “None of us really wanted to back-stab the other. It was that simple,” he said. Participants said...
...call it what it is: an amnesty (though Senate Republicans have disguised it better than they did 21 years ago). But it may be too expensive an amnesty for many illegals to sign up for: it would have been more effective, psychologically, if the Senate had kept the "fine" closer to $2,000 - that is, what most migrants pay coyotes to smuggle them over the border...