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...state charges that he defrauded lenders of $11 million and bilked a Manhattan real estate cooperative out of $4 million, was discovered tied up in the basement of his rental house with multiple stab wounds. He was expected to plead guilty this month to grand larceny and serve a prison term...
...SATs, federal funding for second-chance programs, such as the night school Ryan attended, dropped from a high of $15 billion in the late 1970s to $3 billion last year. Yet the stakes in the struggle to get students to graduate are higher than ever: an estimated 67% of prison inmates nationwide are high school dropouts. A 2002 Northeastern University study found that nearly half of all dropouts ages 16 to 24 were unemployed...
...fact, ripping into schooling is something homeschoolers have done with vigor and eloquence. "There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school," wrote the partly home-educated George Bernard Shaw. "It is a prison (where teachers) discourse without charm on subjects they don't understand and don't care about." Shaw's sentiment lives on in Sydney mother Mujahidah Flint, who withdrew two of her daughters from their Muslim school before the older one had finished Year 2. Flint felt the school wasn't honoring Islamic values, among other failings. Later, her view of school...
...Bizarre remarks from Humala's family have not helped his image. His young brother Antauro, currently in prison for leading an army reservists' attack on a police station last year that killed four officers, said he would put the current President Alejandro Toledo and all 120 members of Congress before a firing squad if he were president. His mother told a local paper late in the campaign that shooting a few homosexuals would reduce immorality in the country...
...where he was elected to the House Committee. As a sophomore, he ran for Student Council President. In his early Crimson years, Foote was a sports writer, reporting on lightweight crew, before becoming managing editor his senior year. As a Quaker, his pacifist beliefs led him to serve two prison sentences during World War II. The first indictment came in 1943, when his conscientious objector status during a draft led to a conviction for violating the Selective Service Act. In 1945, he spent a year in a federal penitentiary for similar charges until he was pardoned by President Truman...