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...Under a new arena lease with the state, the team must average 14,753 in paid attendance for regular season games from Dec. 1, 2007, through the end of the 2009 season. If the Hornets miss that threshold, the team has an option to leave New Orleans for a more attractive market - there are plenty, including St. Louis and Seattle, which will likely lose the Sonics - though it will cost Shinn a $100 million penalty...
Assistant Dean of the College Paul J. McLoughlin II clarified yesterday that the working draft does not in fact include this stipulation. The option of employing BAT teams at Stein Clubs will remain up to the discretion of individual House masters, he wrote in an e-mailed statement...
...product of a seven-year collaboration among the teachers' union, the district and city hall. Rolled out last school year, ProComp includes nine ways for teachers to raise their earnings, some through bonuses and some through bumps in salary. New hires are automatically enrolled, while veterans have the option of sticking with the old salary schedule. But in just one year, half of Denver's 4,555 teachers have signed...
...Republican Party will not be able to begin preparing for the general election as soon as leaders would like. At worst, Mike Huckabee's insistence on staying in the race undermines McCain's precarious status as a consensus conservative candidate. The longer that anyone-but-McCain voters have an option in the primary voting booth, the less likely they will be to turn out to vote in the general...
...lured by the chance to participate in the Democrats' first-ever Global Primary, a rolling eight-day event that kicked off on Super Tuesday and is designed to allow expatriate Democrats to vote in 33 countries, from the Dominican Republic to Cambodia. The Global Primary also offers them the option of voting by fax or online. The global tally will be announced on Feb. 21, and it will determine the selection of 22 delegates commanding 11 votes at the Democratic Convention in August...