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...long ago, few Rosemont students were considered college material. Reared in downtown Baltimore's roughest ZIP code, almost all of them live in poverty. The lucky ones could expect to take classes someday at a community college, but nearly two-thirds of students in this troubled district don't make it through high school. On standardized tests conducted three years ago, not a single Rosemont student read at grade level...
...After the '94 elections, a stunning event [he waves his arms for emphasis] we lost the Senate. Downtown they got into a habit of negotiating the principal bills directly, White House to leadership. The leadership on Gingrich's side even left out the Republican committee chairman and ranking members. You could end up with a 1,300-page bill that a great majority of us had never seen...
...long ago, few Rosemont students were considered college material. Reared in downtown Baltimore's roughest ZIP code, almost all of them live in poverty. The lucky ones could expect to take classes someday at a community college, but nearly two-thirds of students in this troubled district don't make it through high school. On standardized tests conducted three years ago, not a single Rosemont student read at grade level...
...been Antley's first brush with the law. Two months earlier, police stopped him after he drove his green Jeep Cherokee erratically through downtown Pasadena. He admitted to having drunk an entire bottle of vodka and had a breath-alcohol content of 0.26%, more than three times the legal limit. A more serious run-in came in October, when Tyler summoned police to the house claiming Antley had been talking about going to the airport to pick up his wife Natalie, saying "I'm going to do away with...
They moved north and were married in 1965, and 30 years ago, they opened a restaurant that became an institution in downtown Newark, N.J. SOUL OF THE SOUTH, HEART OF THE CITY, say the place mats at Je's Restaurant, where Harry and Diane worked alongside each other. They raised three handsome sons and sent them to college, and all three, despite other pursuits, continued to help their parents run the restaurant that became Newark's kitchen...