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...winner of Saturday’s matchup will play at South Florida on Tuesday night...
...flunk a bad teacher. Each state has its own stories: A Connecticut teacher received a mere 30-day suspension for helping students cheat on a standardized test; one California school board spent $8,000 to fire an instructor who preferred using R-rated movies instead of books; a Florida teacher remained in the classroom for a year despite incidents in which she threw books at her students and demanded they referred...
...than the art deco splendor of Ocean Drive, Lapidus' wavy edifice and quirky interior design - the Stairway to Nowhere, the Swiss Cheese Wall - define Miami the way the Plaza once epitomized New York and the Ritz embodies Paris. And it spotlights what still puts food on the table in Florida: tourism. In that sense, the Fontainebleau's resurrection may be less an unseemly display of ostentation than a defiant display of pluck. "Our intent is to change the economic momentum here," Karawan insists. (See 50 authentic American experiences...
Perhaps it will. But it also evokes an economic negative: South Florida's incorrigible reliance on low-wage industries like tourism. It has exacerbated the effects of the recession here - and it has led to a widening, Third World-style gap between rich and poor. The average wage in Miami-Dade County is less than $40,000; but according to a report this year by Florida Atlantic University, a family needs an income closer to $100,000 just to afford an average single-family home here. The in-your-face lifestyles of Miami's rich-and-famous have encourged...
...even as the Connecticut decision brought celebration to New England this week, it was a stark counterpoint of last week’s wave of bad news: from California, Florida and Arizona, all of which passed referenda amending their state constitutions to ban same-sex marriage. Even as Massachusetts and California appeared at one point to sit at the vanguard of a movement for marriage equality in the United States, the popular tide seems to have turned in a worrying direction...