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...arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday, Jiggetts refused to return voluntarily to Massachusetts to face criminal charges, which include first-degree murder, accessory after the fact of murder, carrying a gun without a license, and armed robbery. He has been jailed without bail and is scheduled to reappear in court on July...
...incarnation will be less car- and more people-oriented. So instead of there being stores and offices set back from the road, with parking in between, new mixed-use buildings will hug the sidewalk, with retail on the first floor to accommodate passersby. Buildings will be squeezed together, Manhattan-style. "The new plan? It's basically known as urbanism," says Fairfax County planning commissioner Walter Alcorn...
...Open Conversation Earlier this year I attended a daylong conference in Manhattan devoted to education reform. Called Hacking Education, it was a small, private affair: 40-odd educators, entrepreneurs, scholars, philanthropists and venture capitalists, all engaged in a sprawling six-hour conversation about the future of schools. Twenty years ago, the ideas exchanged in that conversation would have been confined to the minds of the participants. Ten years ago, a transcript might have been published weeks or months later on the Web. Five years ago, a handful of participants might have blogged about their experiences after the fact...
...Harvard in September 2003. After having nearly finished a five-year music program, he was preparing to graduate in January. Second to his considerate nature, Antoine’s friends and peers recalled his passion for music. According to Antoine’s ex-girlfriend, he studied at the Manhattan School of Music before college. During his year-long leave of absence in 2006-2007, he worked as a steward at the Boston Opera House, where he watched music performances for free. Antoine could always find time to talk about his plans for the College’s music department...
...September seven years before, this one is said to have changed everything. That snapping sensation was almost certainly louder for ears tuned to a specific frequency—those of a graduating senior alert to any sounds of change. I was hearing it again in a phone call from Manhattan...