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...lately the situation has gone from bad to, well, perverse. "One of the frustrating paradoxes of the recession is falling real estate markets and rising property taxes," says Kurt Wenner, research director at Florida Tax Watch in Tallahassee. A 2008 state reform, as well as another scheduled to go into effect next year, has reduced some of Florida's property-tax burden by making the cap more generous and accessible to more residents. But because of arcane provisions in the homestead law, government appraisers can tell a homeowner that although his house's current market value may be as depressed...
...very little experience in going into a preexisting school and turning those kids from low performers into high-quality students. But Zitzner, whose Entrepreneurship Preparatory has about 200 students in grades 6 to 8, can't wait to dive in. In the past three years his students have gone from fairly abysmal test results to scoring in the top quartile on the Ohio standardized test, and he doesn't see why that model can't be replicated among other underperforming students. "Charter-school people are entrepreneurs - we like challenges, and this industry needs people who can make order...
...charming star of Love Story, later the provocateur of so much domestic misery that he was dubbed "Hollywood's worst father" by the British Daily Mail. (Fawcett's and O'Neal's son Redmond has suffered numerous drug busts, one on April 5, just after his mother had gone to the hospital for the last time...
...saying marriage is miserable? Not at all. I've been married for a really, really long time. And just because people have problems doesn't mean they can't solve their problems. I work with so many couples who have gone through all the stages of dealing with this stuff and they come out the other end in a much better place than they ever were. I guess what I want to leave people with is the hope that you will take love seriously. It's the best thing in life. Why would you say it's too hard...
...cities, have contracts with some Kanjeevaram weaver co-ops, which is helping them hang on. But it isn't enough to stop people from fleeing the profession. In and around Kanchipuram, famous for the Kanjeevaram silk saris that hail from this region, the manpower in the weaving industry has gone down drastically, from 60,000 10 years ago to about 20,000 today...