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...that led to the death of 21-year-old Cambridge resident Justin Cosby early the next morning. After the incident, Copney and the two individuals accompanying him allegedly fled the scene and headed toward Lowell—where Smith lives—and met an unidentified witness, said Assistant District Attorney Daniel Bennett at Copney’s arraignment last month. Copney then told the witness, “there was a fight, and then a shooting,” Bennett said. According to a Lowell resident who requested anonymity because they did not want their name associated with...
...Spitzer’s diligence eventually led to a political career centered on aggressively combating organized crime and corruption, first in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and later as the State’s chief lawyer...
...reforms also included a plan to introduce merit pay in up to 150 school districts. Merit pay incentivizes good teaching and has great potential to improve underperforming schools. In many professions, a higher level of performance is rewarded with a higher level of pay, and teaching should be no exception. New York City’s Chancellor of Schools, Joel I. Klein, has already instituted a modified version of merit pay: The district gave $14.2 million in bonuses to schools that improved their performance in the 2007-2008 school year. A more effective system would be a hybrid model...
...mistake for America to lose talented, enthusiastic workers to other countries because of xenophobic fears or excessive red tape. Furthermore, in a matter of more local concern, we hope that the federal government will assist the Boston public school system in its present hour of need. This year, the district will cut 900 positions, 403 of which are teaching jobs. As a result, class sizes will likely increase and students will get less attention. Federal assistance is needed, and at the very least, Congress should refrain from cutting federal funding for state aid that could be used to shore...
...This is because of high transport costs linked to a poor road system. Roughly 70 percent of all rural Africans live more than a 30-minute walk from the nearest all-weather road, so when seasonal rains are good, surplus production cannot be moved easily for sale in another district at a higher price. Even worse for these true Locavores, when the crops fail in a drought, food supplies from nearby surplus regions cannot be brought...