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...Milwaukee, both Fritsche and Humboldt Park have fine reputations, but the district has decided to place most of its bets on the likes of Humboldt Park. Since 2001, it has expanded the number of K-8 schools from 12 to 48, with 14 more on the way. Meanwhile, the number of middle schools in Milwaukee has shrunk from 23 to 14. "Once young adolescents get to the sixth grade, the achievement level begins to decline a bit and disruptive behavior increases," says William Andrekopoulos, the superintendent of schools. "We're providing a number of different options," including some big middle...
...settlement came more than a year after a judge in U.S. District Court found Shleifer and Hay liable for making personal investments in Russia while advising the program for the now defunct Harvard Institute for International Development. Conflict-of-interest provisions in their contracts with the government strictly prohibited such investments, which totaled several hundred thousand dollars...
...defendants in the case had argued, to various degrees, that they were not bound by the conflict-of-interest provisions in their contracts. But in a summary judgment in June 2004, U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock disagreed, finding Shleifer and Hay liable under the False Claims Act, a federal law that prescribed heavy damages for violating a contract with the government...
...with carpal tunnel syndrome wasn't covered by the antidiscrimination law. Still, as a judge, Roberts has come down on the side of workers, ruling in favor of an employee who accused Washington's transit authority of having fired him because he suffers from bipolar disorder. He upheld the district court ruling because he said the transit authority received federal funds and thus was obliged to follow federal laws governing terminations. Upcoming Cases: One involves whether workers at meat-processing plants should be paid for the time it takes them to get to their work stations after they don nearly...
...Tambanum village, about 65 km south of Wewak, more than 1,000 people from the Iatmul tribe live along the banks of the Sepik, and on the tiny creeks and tributaries that carve up the district. They know the power of the skulls. One of their people, they believe, paid a terrible price for selling a head. The man, Toni Kawa, "went into the bush and when he came back he started vomiting; and just from vomiting he died," says a fellow villager who preferred not to be named. "Then his wife died. The only way (to stop...