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...restore faith in the local government, Franklin shepherded through the city council a new ethics code for municipal employees. She corralled 75 private firms to conduct studies of Atlanta's budgetary, infrastructure and homeless problems and perform a massive audit of the city government--pro bono. She organized a task force she called the Pothole Posse to go after the city's crumbling streets. She kept a running tally of cracks that were filled, combining good stewardship with quality political theater...
Unlike traditional summer schools, which usually provide remedial or enrichment courses, YRE extends the regular schedule through a calendar year. Many schools conduct 45-, 60-or 90-day sessions, with different student groups on overlapping schedules that provide short breaks in between. The program is most popular in California, which runs three-quarters of the nation's YRE schools. Los Angeles, where year-round programs were launched at two schools eleven years ago, now has 130,000 youngsters (23% of the city's 565,570 public school students) attending year-round classes in 95 schools at all levels. In nearby...
...with his Afghan-born wife and three-year-old daughter. French authorities, hoping to ascertain what killed him, did not release the body for three weeks. The delay was attributed partly to the fact that since the burial would be in Pakistan, there would be no further opportunity to conduct forensic tests. Inevitably, Bhutto's sudden and unexplained death spawned rumors of political intrigue, including the possibility that he had been murdered...
...relationship between the U.S. military command and the new Iraqi leadership remains something of a gray area, given the outcome of the election. Right now there is no "status of forces" agreement covering the conduct of U.S. forces in a sovereign Iraq, and some leaders of the Shiite alliance have suggested they will press for such an agreement...
...aggressive enough. We believe there is enough student demand for at least a few dining halls open past 8:30 p.m.—possibly as late as 10 p.m. or 11 p.m. The UC and HUDS should not jump to some arbitrary compromise time; they should conduct more surveys and analyze student demand more finely to find the solution best suited to student needs...