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...Frosted Mini Spooners and a turkey sandwich, Frances M. Tompkins ’09 said it was her first time taking advantage of the extended hours. “I’m happy to have another hour to slip in,” said Tompkins, who had missed lunch earlier in the day. “But it’s not something I’ll use every day.” Isaiah K. Mwangi ’09, dining on chicken and rice with a side of cake, agreed. “It?...
...that for the next few months, she should “get out there and experience being young.” At first, Opal is taken aback, but by the end of chapter two, she pulls it together and does what she has to do: ditches her old lunch table, trades the books in for looks, and with the help of her hyperactive parents, drafts a plan to become the most popular girl at Woodcliff High...
...glare of Jack Abramoff's indictment has highlighted many of the capital's more unsavory habits, and members of Congress have been eager, in an election year, to make a show of throwing away their perks. No junkets; no booze cruises; they will take a lunch only if it's a Happy Meal. But politics stops at the bedroom's edge. Post-Abramoff Sudden Virtue Syndrome has yet to result in a ban on the world's most obvious conflict of interest, one that is, in the words of Public Citizen director Frank Clemente, "way up there on the unseemly...
...spectacle of lawmakers niggling over lunch guidelines and those surprisingly entertaining "educational trips" illustrates how much easier it is to spout rhetoric about honesty in public life than it is to live an actual public life in a city where conflicts of interest are just what make people interesting. Outlaw lobbying by spouses, and you'll greatly restrict the options for those who want to marry inside the Beltway but don't ever want to be "the wife." Marriage is a contract, but in Washington no less than anywhere else, it can't survive under conditions of full disclosure...
...author, Pennsylvania State University education professor Donald E. Heller, found that 25 percent of white students qualified for the scholarship in 2005, compared with only 8 percent of African-American students and 8 percent of Hispanics. Additionally, only 10 percent of students on the National School Lunch program—who have family incomes of less than $35,000—were eligible for the scholarship, as opposed to 26 percent of higher-income students. Heller said that the MCAS test produces broader scoring gaps for minority and low-income students than national standardized tests such as the SATs...