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...estimated average age of the audience gathered in the futuristic Tempodrom arena in Berlin's western district of Kreuzberg is around 37. They're gathered for a landmark event in rock 'n' roll history: 34 years after it's release, Lou Reed will perform his legendary "Berlin" album in the city which inspired...
...prank that embarrassed the school and cost Frederick a few days of forced vacation. It did not raise politically weighty issues like drug policy or whether students should wear black armbands to school in protest of the Vietnam War, the issue in Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District, the 1969 case establishing students' right to free speech. And making a Supreme Court case out of it was all but frivolous, a move emblematic of how students and their parents are rushing to court to vent their smallest grievances with schools...
...that they are relatively vulnerable against determined assailants, despite increased security measures around their observation posts and hill top bases in south Lebanon. Sources told TIME that the UNIFIL headquarters regularly receives unspecified intelligence warnings of possible impending attacks, such as bomb-laden cars entering the southern Lebanon border district. "The problem is that there's nothing hard enough for us to act upon," a UNIFIL officer told TIME a day before Sunday's fatal bombing. "We are a soft target and it's only a matter of time before we are hit." Immediately after Sunday's bombing, UNIFIL raised...
Under the current system, applicants to the 12 schools are divided into two categories: those who are eligible for the federal free lunch program and those who are not. Each school must, within a certain margin, reflect the district's overall socioeconomic characteristics. Parents are able to rank their top three choices, but because each school must fit inside a certain range, a number of students each year do not receive one of their top choices...
...data has also come in question because it may be too skewed toward those who did not receive one of their first three choices. When the surveyors asked parents if they had received one of their top choices, 74 percent said they had while 6 percent were unsure. But district data show that 91 percent actually receive one of their top choices...