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...week's flurry, the White House became more protected and yet more of a magnet for intrusion. Only three days after Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House was abruptly closed to vehicular traffic as a caution against a truck-bomb attack, the first of two interlopers challenged the security sytem. A troubled graduate student in psychology carrying an old, unloaded pistol climbed the 8-ft.-high iron fence on the east side of the White House on Tuesday night and rushed 60 yds. across the grounds. In the struggle to subdue him, a guard fired a shot that...
While state attorney general Richard Blumenthal concedes that the situation is bleak, he insists that the state is actually on Hartford's side. "One of the ironies," Blumenthal notes, "is that Connecticut has been a leader in promoting racial balance by supporting measures such as magnet schools, school choice, charter schools. And there is more money in the state budget this year than in previous years for those kinds of measures." But reforming the system through such voluntary initiatives is "a very long, tedious process,'' says Mayor Peters. "In the meantime we're losing another half a generation of students...
Among his more ingenious creations: A refrigerator magnet picture frame, out of a bone. A new zipper for my jacket. A luggage tag. A slinky holder...
...Core is meant to make students familiar with a wide variety of fields, but forcing them into huge magnet courses defeats that purpose. Instead of having Literature and Arts C in the fall, why not list just "Nagy's Take on Ancient Greece" as a new Core area in the course catalog...
...Speaker may have less trouble commanding party loyalty in any vote to cut, say, farm subsidies. To achieve a similar end, some of the most powerful committees have had their authority reduced. Still, Gingrich didn't pare back all of the sprawl. Ways and Means, for instance, is a magnet for campaign contributions because it controls the tax code. Chairman Bill Archer was willing to make do with 29 members, but demand for seats was so high that Gingrich made...