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...School choice allows parents to select schools from a wide variety of geographic locations with considerable commuting distances. In the interests of equity and fairness, the state should eliminate the artificial barrier of excessive transportation cost by providing tax credits to the parents who pay transportation costs out-of-pocket...
...wife Georgette, chat among the guests, who included eminence grise Pete Peterson and Sally Jessy Raphael, variously covered Somalia and Bosnia -- and, eventually, Rush Limbaugh and Howard Stern. Another guest, the woman who edits both Limbaugh and Stern (as well as Mrs. Mosbacher and Beavis and Butt-head) for Pocket Books, came under attack for publishing Stern's unseemliness. His book, Private Parts, in addition to autobiographical particulars and his not-exactly-progressive views on social issues, flaunts his low-down obsession with sexuality. "You should be ashamed," said a very powerful entertainment executive who has made millions of dollars...
...went to college at Vassar. After flirting with a music career, she got a job at the Enquirer, chasing down stories about Siamese twins and celebrity divorces. She moved on to TV as a producer for Geraldo! and Entertainment Tonight before Simon & Schuster hired her to revitalize their Pocket Books division. "I didn't come up the traditional way, but I paid my dues," she says. "I am a maverick, and people can't stand other people's success. How dare I appear to have it all? Believe me, it is just an appearance. I'd trade places with just...
Further down the river, vendors were offering a healthier? alternative: "Marinated Chicken Breast Grilled with Onions and Peppers Served in a Pita Pocket," according to a large yellow and green sign. They also offered Soft Tortilla Tacos. The booth was in the midst of accommodating a small mob when Fifteen Minutes came by. "Come back later," said one of the vendors as he furiously removed chicken from boxes and brushed the meat with sauce. "We'll probably settle down by three. I can talk to you then," he said. Fifteen Minutes returned to the scene at 3:30 only...
...outside world averts its gaze, one reason may be, or so relief workers believe, that with the cold war over, Angola no longer has strategic value. Another is that much of the country's misery is confined to small pockets of inaccessible territory. One such pocket is Malanje, 330 km east of Luanda and one of the largest provincial capitals. Despite a population of 250,000, swollen by the arrival of 50,000 refugees during the past year, it remains a ghost town. At a government health office, 100 children, mostly orphans, beg for meals. In a center...