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Some 58,000 children crisscross Jefferson County on school buses in much the same manner, with 1 out of 7 of these kids traveling an hour or more each way. What's more, most of their parents--Brown included --are happy with the system. So much to-ing and fro-ing is a result of the school district's generally popular racial guidelines, which aim to keep the percentage of African Americans in any one school from falling below 15% or rising above 50%. The district as a whole is about one-third black...
...convention (H.E.A.L.T.H.), concert (Nashville), casino spree (California Split), couture opening (Ready to Wear), country weekend (Gosford Park) or old-time radio show (A Prairie Home Companion). Any social gathering, in fact, where people advance the friendly fraud of being themselves, where politics and showbiz overlap, where the action spills fro> m the stage into the audience...
While Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) had reduced its repertoire of fro-yo offerings, the officials in charge of students’ aliments are changing course...
...offer is too low. Sometimes there's a bit of to-and-fro in the bidding, such as on a freezer chest that eventually fetches $620. But often any bid will do. A chair goes for a buck. A tarpaulin, a wheelbarrow, a birdcage, a garden sprayer and a chainsaw that doesn't work each fetch a pittance-but for the owners, the point is they're gone. Bidders have traveled as far as 25 km on the hunt for a bargain...
...weekend,” said senior varsity bowman Alex Phillips. “One of the things we were saying afterwards is that this is a good test and it gets us refocused.”Both varsity races stayed close throughout, but it was the frustrating to-and-fro of the first varsity race that did in the Crimson. A sluggish start put Harvard six seats down as both boats settled to a race pace for the first 500 meters, but the Crimson kept Dartmouth from adding any more to its lead in the opening half of the race.A...