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...degree, didn't want to compromise the education of her daughter Lindsay, 13, an élite gymnast who spends eight hours a day in the gym. "Regular school was not an option," says Bannon, "but I wanted to make sure she could go back at grade level if she quit gymnastics." Laurel Springs' enrollment has increased 35% a year for the past four years, to 1,800 students. At least 25% are either athletes or child entertainers. Educators are split on the merits of such schools. Paul Orehovec, an enrollment officer for the University of Miami, admits, "I was somewhat...
...Charles Clarke, the bruising former Education Secretary and close buddy of Prime Minister Tony Blair, will replace Blunkett. He has a big job: Blair is grounding his re-election campaign this year on the security agenda Clarke now runs, including controversial compulsory ID cards. But the day after Blunkett quit, the country's highest court sank one of his toughest law-and-order legacies. It voted 8-1 that foreign terror suspects could no longer be detained indefinitely without trial, because the emergency the government declared to square this with European human rights law was invalid, and indefinite detention...
...Chinese political culture, and social commentator Liu Xiaobo. The police questioned the three about their writings and copied material from their computers. Yu's wife Liu Min says police told her that her husband was suspected of "endangering state security," and that she should "tell her old man to quit writing." All three men were later released, but as of Thursday night, Yu said police were still stationed outside his door and following him when he went out. Yu's lawyer said it was unclear whether the detention was "a prelude to an arrest or merely a warning...
...reaction of many here to Dartboard’s decision to quit has reassured Dartboard that he made the right choice. Although their remarks of “Oh man, now I have one less friend!” and “Oh well you’re not my real friend anymore either” were made in jest, there was just enough truth behind them to show why thefacebook is so messed up. While Dartboard is often a voice in the dark, he hopes that on this issue he will be joined by many others...
...band has only recently begun their current forward-moving trajectory. Warren almost quit before the band had really gotten started, but was called back to the music through her obsession with a single album: Lucinda Williams’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. “Becky got really psyched about it and got us all really psyched about it,” Eggers says, “though Altay was really skeptical at the start...