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...surprising number of other U.S. cities have come to the same conclusion, reversing the trend that created thousands of middle schools in the 1970s and '80s. Cincinnati and Cleveland, Ohio; Minneapolis, Minn.; Philadelphia; Memphis, Tenn.; and Baltimore, Md., are in various stages of reconfiguring their schools away from the middle school model and toward K-8s. Some suburban districts, including the wealthy Capistrano School District in Orange County, Calif., are also making the switch...
Sources: Hannity and Colmes; AP; Philadelphia Inquirer; CNN; New York Times...
...expect I’ll have a career where it’s going to be years and years between pitching performances,” said Summers, who threw for his Little League team in suburban Philadelphia before giving up the sport at age 12. He’s been a tennis player ever since...
...throw out the first pitch as recognition for Harvard’s work with the BELL Foundation, which provides educational opportunities to low-income children, donned a Red Sox cap for the occasion. In an interview, though, he confessed he still harbors a bit of allegiance to the Philadelphia Phillies, his childhood favorite, and the Baltimore Orioles, his team of choice while in Washington, D.C., during the 1990s...
What about other mayors? A Notebook survey found that the mayors of Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia and New Orleans do not have listed phone numbers. But Boston Mayor Thomas Menino, elected to the city council in 1983, has kept his number listed ever since. The mayors of Minneapolis, Minn., and San Antonio, Texas, can be found in the phone book, and so can the top executives of smaller towns like Topeka, Kans., and Fargo, N.D. If you ring Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, you just may get her mother, Ruth White, who calmly refers irate callers to city hall. Says White...