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...Jefferson, the local main street, Weird Harold's Records survives because Dan Bessine, 52, has found a niche the chains can't match. He sells vinyl records on the Internet (find him at Weirdharolds.com) At Valley and Third, the Hotel Burlington reopened as a senior-housing complex this year after sitting vacant for 20 years. And Schramm's department store, which closed five years ago after 150 years of operation, is reopening piece by piece, as a restaurant, small shops and loft apartments...
...customary to mention that Dwight Eisenhower, asked to name his biggest mistake in office, replied, "I made two, and they're both sitting on the Supreme Court"--implying that the court mysteriously reshapes the views of those who ascend to it. But that idea doesn't withstand scrutiny, says Harold Spaeth, a Michigan State professor who has spent 40 years demystifying the court. Ike's nominations of Earl Warren and William Brennan were political deals, designed to shore up his support in California and New Jersey and made without regard for ideology, "so it's no wonder they didn...
Last week Roy Romer, 71, former Governor of Colorado, was appointed to what might be the second most difficult job in America: superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District. Only a month ago, another educational outsider, Wall Street lawyer Harold Levy, 47, was officially named New York City schools chancellor, No. 1 on the mission-impossible list (he had been serving as interim chancellor since January). The two had never met, so last week TIME introduced them through an early-morning conference call. Excerpts...
Next Tuesday is report-card day at Chicago's Harold Washington Elementary School, and Tracy Bates is already on edge. She earned A's and B's last semester in most subjects, including attendance and presentable uniforms. But she's been working to pull up the D she got in homework monitoring. Bates, you see, is a 39-year-old stay-at-home mom whose daughter is a fifth-grader at Harold Washington...
With teachers and students held to increasingly stringent academic standards, a small but growing number of schools around the country are insisting that parents also make the grade. Harold Washington has issued its parents their own report cards for several years. Chicago has announced plans to take a similar practice district-wide this fall, when it will send home reports on the moms and dads of the 431,000 kids in grades K through 12. Posted at five-week intervals, the reports will rate parents--good, satisfactory or less than satisfactory--on points including whether they get their children...