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...slim as his World Series hopes. Last week CBS succeeded in buying back 21% of its own stock for about $1 billion in a deal that will make it virtually impossible for Turner's takeover effort to succeed. Both the Federal Communications Commission and a U.S. district court in Atlanta blocked Turner's last-minute legal challenges to the network's move...
...swarms with some 900 boys and girls shooting baskets, playing tetherball and skipping rope. This large number of children are not at Franklin for a summer recreation outing. They are at morning recess in Franklin's year-round school, one of three such programs in the Oakland unified school district, and one of 394 year-round education projects that are nourishing at scattered locations in schools across the country...
...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 Oxnard, yearlong attendance has jumped to 7,700 of the district's 11,100 pupils, after starting in two schools in 1976. Twelve-month schooling is catching on in other parts of the Sunbelt. Houston has just approved YRE for 25 elementary schools. In 1983-84 the city had just...
...years. Coulter is more like Clare Boothe Luce, the wife of this magazine's co-founder, who rankled the Roosevelt establishment in the '40s with her take-no-prisoners opposition to the New Deal and communism. In her first House floor speech as a Congresswoman representing the Connecticut district where Coulter later grew up, Luce called Vice President Henry Wallace's liberal approach to postwar foreign policy "globaloney," a proto-Coulterism that shocked many in Washington. Today Coulter often speaks under the auspices of a conservative group called the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute that was founded by Luce admirers...
...immigration reform: "I support the president's proposal [which would create a guest workers program] unlike many of my conservative colleagues and my district probably isn't as enthusiastic as I am. All of my colleagues say we should put the military on the border. The answer would be what military, because our Guard and Reserve, they are in Iraq and Afghanistan. Even if we put 2,000 more border control agents, we have one million people coming...