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...discovered that fewer than one-third of the students who requested transfers from low-scoring New York City schools actually got them last year. The good schools just didn't have extra space. This year Olivero sent her only son to live with his uncle in suburban Greenwich, Conn., and attend school there. "I wish he could have stayed in the Bronx and just walked to school," Olivero says. "But there was nothing else I could do. The transfer system is hopeless...
...industry in the U.S., it fields the largest lobby in Washington, with more lobbyists than there are members of Congress. It gives lavishly to political campaigns including that of the current President. While favoring conservative Republicans, the industry also supports key Democrats generously, such as Senator Joe Lieberman, D-Conn. Not surprisingly, neither the Senate nor House bills contain a hint of regulation...
...lump-sum payment built up over his 20 years as a senior executive. Still, even accounting for decades of compounded interest and (at least for a while) a booming stock market, $140 million is "very generous," says Doug Jensen, an executive-compensation consultant at Hay Group in Norwalk, Conn. Consider: it's equal to the entire second-quarter pension expense for Northrop Grumman, a company with 120,000 employees...
Some pairs manage to navigate the transition from platonic to romantic and back again. Tracy Livingston, 30, a teacher from Ridgefield, Conn., dated Keith Lawrence on and off in junior high and high school. "By college we realized we were better friends than lovers," she says. These days Livingston, who got married on July 19 (with Lawrence as her "bride dude"), tries to set Lawrence up on dates. Her husband Elliot "is great about our friendship," she says. "I wouldn't have married him if he weren't." The threesome often goes out at night together or plays golf...
...year-old Parsons grad from Weston, Conn., come up with a plan to transform functional bucket bags into sexy totes with names like the Slim Soho? He had pretty good training: five years at Ralph Lauren in design and then another three at Tommy Hilfiger, where he eventually became chief marketing officer...