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DISNEY CHANNEL Compared with its other millennium-ready operations, Disney's network is Frontierland. The programming is filled with middling cartoons, Disney movies and, for no apparent reason, daily back-to-back repeats of Growing Pains. But the whole Mickey Rooney "Let's put on a network" concept pays off in Bug Juice. It's a Real World treatment of 12-to-15-year-olds away at camp. Whereas MTV's show gets mired in the inconsequential whining of twentysomethings ("I can't believe you just stuck your finger in the peanut butter, dude!"), the torture of a 13-year...
...idea was getting nowhere until help came from Norquist's group and J. Patrick Rooney, a conservative Indiana insurance executive who had launched a privately funded school-voucher experiment in Indianapolis. Together they provided most of the financing, nearly half a million dollars, for the petition drive that put 226 on the ballot. Then California Governor Pete Wilson signed on. For Wilson, who as mayor of San Diego regularly battled public-employee unions in the 1970s, Prop. 226 also provided the satisfaction of payback to the teachers' union. Over the years, the C.T.A. has squared off against him on school...
...three were helped to safety showers and eye wash stations one floor below. The first Harvard police officers on the scene found the researcher hit in the face still having difficulty breathing, according to Lt. John Rooney...
...They had no idea" about their past, says Lynn Rooney, the Middlesex County, Mass., assistant D.A. who broke the news to the young women. "It was difficult for them, and it was difficult for me," Rooney said...
While Duncan could have been detained oncharges of trespassing, the arresting officerschose to charge him solely with the outstandingwarrant, Rooney said...