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...taking responsibility for the future of entire graduating classes of schools and even of school systems is a new idea, one that appears to be gaining support around the country. Responding in part to sharp cutbacks in federal funding for student aid, benefactors from Dallas to Chicago, from Oakland to New York City, are pitching in to shore up troubled public- school systems...
...vigorously protests that only the bad guys take dope on Miami Vice and they come to an unseemly end, public polls show that many people still feel such shows glamourize drug use. Fast clothes and cars may be the toys of villains, but they are seductive nonetheless. In Oakland two weeks ago, many were shocked when the body of a notorious local drug lord, Felix Mitchell, was carried by a gold-and-black hearse, drawn by two bay horses, followed by a long line of Rolls-Royces and luxury cars. Inside the Baptist church where Mitchell lay in his bronze...
Last week the father-and-son team made its largest takeover bid ever as Dart Group offered $3.6 billion, or $58 a share, for Oakland-based Safeway Stores, the biggest supermarket chain in the U.S. Though the Hafts have the retailing expertise to enter the grocery business, some Wall Streeters think that the raiders once again intend to pass through the express checkout line to a quick profit. They already own 5.9% of Safeway's shares, which they bought earlier this year at an average price of about $42 a share. Since Safeway stock rose last week...
...this way, he is a subtler find than fellow Phenoms Jose Canseco of Oakland and Pete Incaviglia of Texas, whose muscles show. "I didn't expect to hit 15 the whole year," Joyner admits. "I never think about hitting a home run. Sometimes I sit down, and it doesn't feel like I've ever hit one. I'm in dreamland. Because I've been playing baseball for a year straight now, I'm hard-pressed to think where everything started and stopped. But I've kept a fairly even keel, I hope, thanks to my family...
...YORK -- Curt Young beat Ron Guidry in a duel of left-handers, as Oakland scored the winning run in the ninth inning on an error by New York center fielder Rickey Henderson to defeat the Yankees, 2-1, Tuesday night...