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Where does that leave charters' biggest boosters, poor and inner-city parents who can't always take time off from work to go school shopping? Two years ago, Josefina Galvan, a Mexican immigrant who works the graveyard shift as a nurse's aide, enrolled her four kids in Paramount Academy on word of mouth alone. They lasted one year and learned so little that all four repeated their grades at their new school--another charter that came highly recommended but is no award winner. "Even if the charter schools are terrible, I wouldn't put my kids back in public...
...that right, Charlie. That's when he created his inner investment group. "In any business deal I do going forward," Palmer explains, "I offer [the staff] an opportunity to invest in any project on the same terms I do." If, for example, Palmer invests $200,000 to buy 30% of a business, the group might invest $100,000 for an additional 15%. Now numbering 22, the group can choose to invest or pass. And members decide which employees can join...
...Americans, this new alliance has caused a reappraisal of the previous opening-up to Don King. The boxing impresario had always been inscrutable, speaking a language of double and triple entendres?and quadruple negatives?that made his pronouncements the subject of devoted Don-ologists who conjectured as to the inner workings of his Cleveland leadership compound. That Beijing chose to appease King is a tribute to the Chinese commitment to the very ideals King best embodies: bare-knuckle capitalism combined with the stench of corruption. (King lured IBF and WBC heavyweight titlist Hasim Rahman by reportedly giving...
...grant applications. Wells Fargo, the school's largest donor, pumps $200,000 into Accelerated each year. And the school in 1997 received a $6.8 million office and warehouse site, donated by clothing designer Carole Little and her business partner Leonard Rabinowitz. As a result, Accelerated is that rare inner-city public school with stylized, glass-block walls and palm trees...
...scroll by in Technicolor. This week a few dozen synesthetes and the psychologists who study them will gather at Princeton University for the first meeting of the American Synesthesia Association--a society devoted to furthering research into the phenomenon in the hopes that it will reveal something about the inner workings of the human mind...