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...made a promise to the school council," said committee member Nancy Walser of the CRLS parent and teacher association. "They would support the restructuring. One of the caveats was that we would let them determine their own budget...
...longer Juan Miguel stayed in Havana, living under Castro's surveillance in a government residence, the easier it was for the family to challenge his motives. But once he stepped onto American soil last week, a parent come to claim a lost child, the emotional balance of power began to shift, and so did the relatives' story. One day they would declare that they believe he is a loving father and that they are resisting his claims only because they fear he is being cruelly pressured by Castro. But the next moment family allies would revive charges that Juan Miguel...
When it comes to parent-child relationships, neither side thinks much about kids' constitutional rights. But should expectations change when kids leave the house and head off to school? This is not a rhetorical question in many schools across the country, where students are increasingly subjected to ever more intensive invasions of privacy, from drug tests to locker searches. Some parents, perhaps exhausted by the demands of their own lives or simply sympathetic to the rigors of policing the behavior of modern adolescents, have praised educators' inclination to act in loco parentis, while others have resisted the schools' control over...
...These are one-time resources so that when the school opens in September, we'll be ready for it," said David Hannon, a CRLS parent and co-chair of the school's budget committee...
Surprisingly, even Geoff Marcy, the leader in the increasingly successful hunt for planets outside our solar system, feels that we may well be alone in the universe. Most of the 33 newly discovered planets--giant gas bags all, including those two new ones--swing so erratically around their parent stars that they would create havoc on any smaller, nearby, life-friendly planets...