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Memorial Hall should act as a resource for undergraduates, not as a magnet for off-campus performers who can pay more...
Money laundering is not a crime in Switzerland unless it can be shown that the cash flows from criminal activities. Yet Switzerland is a magnet for money launderers because of its legitimate multibillion-dollar trade in foreign bank notes. As much as 3,000 lbs. of foreign currency arrives daily at Zurich's Kloten airport. Much of the cash represents earnings from tourism, which each country's banks exchange for local currency. Swiss authorities are investigating charges that Lebanese currency dealer Barkev Magharian, 35, and his brother Jean, 44, both of whom are now in custody, took advantage of that...
...biggest backers of choice is George Bush, who has called it a "national imperative." Choice, as Bush uses it, focuses on two major plans: magnet schools and open enrollment. In his budget address last month, the President proposed that Congress authorize $100 million annually to develop magnet schools, so called because they attract students by developing specialties in areas like drama, creative writing, science and math...
...transferred out of their home districts, taking $2,755 per pupil in state-tax revenues to their new destinations. More than 2,500 others have applied to cross district lines starting in September. In racially divided Massachusetts, however, a similar proposal has run into strong opposition from minority groups. Magnet schools often fare better. Since 1974, such facilities in East Harlem have lured thousands of students into the district and boosted its rank in reading scores from last to 16th out of 32 New York City districts...
...Funds for the founding of "magnet schools," which would excel in a particular subject, and would attract students from that area. Price: $100 million...