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Eight elite colleges and universities and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation will commit a combined $27 million to increase the transfer of low-income community college students to selective four-year institutions over the next four years, the foundation announced yesterday. The Cooke Foundation—an education foundation dedicated to funding low-income students at elite colleges—gave a $6.78 million grant to three public and five private highly selective institutions. The participating schools, which were selected from a pool of 48, are University of California-Berkeley, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Michigan...
...police. The business started with what's known in the trade as a "tiger kidnapping." (The tiger, see, stalks its prey.) Colin Dixon, 51, the manager of a security depot that stores money for commercial banks and the Bank of England, was driving past the Three Squirrels pub in Kent, southeast of London, when a car with men disguised as police officers forced him off the road. Two other fake cops went to the man's house, where they told his wife and young son that Dixon had been involved in an accident. All three were then taken...
...business started with what is known in the trade as a "tiger kidnapping." (The tiger, see, stalks its prey.) Colin Dixon, 51, the manager of a security depot that stores money for commercial banks and the Bank of England, was driving past the Three Squirrels pub in Kent, southeast of London, when a car with men disguised as police officers forced him off the road. Two other fake cops went to the man's house, where they told his wife and young son that Dixon had been involved in an accident. All three were then taken to a safe house...
...that appeared to have come from the Tonbridge haul at a southeast London bank. By the weekend, all three had been released on bail. But two more were arrested on Saturday, and a number of vehicles thought to have been connected to the raid were detained in Kent. Dixon's Nissan was found at the Cock Horse pub, and a red van that the gang is thought to have used turned up at another inn, the Hook and Hatchet. (We are not making this up.) On Friday, following a tip-off--that big reward talking, maybe--the police picked...
...Kent Scheidegger, legal director of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation and proponent of the death penalty, dismisses such talk. "The issues regarding the protocol aren't very substantial to begin with, and I expect they will be resolved within a few months," he says...