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Kids who quit school don't just suddenly drop out; it's more of a slow fade. Typically it begins in the ninth grade, if not earlier, often when life hits a particularly nasty patch and racking up credits in class no longer seems especially compelling or plausible. Ernestine Maisonet started fading in eighth grade, when the grandmother who had raised her died. "She was a woman who worked wonders," murmurs Maisonet, who says she doesn't know her mother and isn't close to her dad. After the death, her family of six siblings fell apart. Maisonet has lived...
...sentence for embezzling and laundering some $100 million from the coffers of the second poorest nation in the hemisphere. Transparency International awarded him the dubious distinction of including him in its list of the World's Ten Most Corrupt leaders of all time. (To his credit, he only ranked ninth, ahead of former Philippine President Joseph Estrada, who stole a paltry $80 million...
Junior Brad Unger came on to try to earn his first save of the season with a runner on second and two outs in the ninth. Unger walked hulking three-hitter Mike Tamsin intentionally and issued a free pass to the cleanup man to load the bases before inducing Josh Porter to foul out to first...
...than the typical eight players, in which case they may have an additional international player who does not count as one of the original eight, but cannot throughout the course of the season be signed to a contract. As Dawson is from Canada, his status could be as that ninth player. The tailback will have a companion at least this weekend if not in his future endeavors. Senior tight end Matt Farbotko also received a phone call from Indianapolis on Sunday afternoon. Although his news was not quite as good as Dawson?...
...Palleroni and his student team will head back to New Orleans to begin work on the Katrina Furniture Project's first neighborhood workshop at the edge of the Ninth Ward, just six blocks from the faulty levees. For now the project is funded by universities and private foundations. But eventually, Palleroni hopes to create a viable business in which locally built furniture - all made from recycled wood - would be sold nationwide, providing jobs for local residents who will make each piece by hand and pocket the profits. He's also teaming up this summer with Brad Guy, a researcher...