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...district is poised to be one of the first to attempt to balance along class lines...
...before voters a ballot initiative in November 2002 that would replace the current bilingual program with a one-year immersion crash course for students who do not speak English. Currently, if there are at least 20 students of limited English proficiency who reside in a Massachusetts school district, that district must provide a three-year program that brings those students to competency in English. At the same time, it must provide additional native language instruction in other subjects, such as math and science, so that students do not fall behind their peers in learning course content. The Unz proposal seeks...
Speculation now is centered around Kennedy School senior fellow Marshall Carter after Swift’s first choice, Suffolk District Attorney Ralph Martin, announced he would resign to become a partner in a Bingham Dana, a high profile law firm...
...caution Hastert and Gephardt displayed was vindicated somewhat when the environmental sweep turned up traces of anthrax in a House mailroom and, tragically so, when two District of Columbia postal workers died, perhaps from handling the Daschle letter, or other letters posted to members of Congress. Though six congressional office buildings remained closed for anthrax testing, the Senate went back into session on Tuesday with House members hard on their heels...
...Especially if the doctor's name is Jekyll or Moreau. From Hell is Hollywood's latest search for Jack the Ripper. It stars Johnny Depp as an opium-addicted Victorian cop and Heather Graham as one of the prostitutes stalked by the madman in London's low-rent Whitechapel district in 1888. It's a shocking movie, to be sure, but this is its most unexpected twist: it is directed by the Hughes brothers, twins Allen and Albert, 29, who are best known, at least have been until now, for their violent urban dramas set in modern-day Los Angeles...