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...schools in the area to increase their chances for future success, says Dugas. “We help them navigate the system. Our top goal is to get 100 percent to enroll in top tier high schools,” explains Tasha B. Patusky, the high school and opportunity specialist for 8GA. Students in the program are also trained to be “savvy consumers” of statistics, analyzing real data on local high schools to make informed decisions about where to apply, Dugas says.All 8GA students participate in a special apprenticeship with lawyers from Boston law firms...
...Beaumont des Crayères, www.champagne-beaumont.com, described by British wine writer Hugh Johnson as "a small outstanding cooperative." It has been on an export drive for more than a decade, particularly with its biggest-selling bottle, a nonvintage Grande Réserve Champagne, made of 60% Pinot Meunier. The Specialist Growers A young new generation of small growers is making a name for itself by challenging conventional wisdom about how to make Champagne. These vignerons reject the use of pesticides, borrow winemaking techniques from Burgundy and produce small-batch cuvées that seek to reflect the particular character...
...Impossible to pin down or pigeonhole, as full of contradictions as his movies, Altman became a specialist in both two movie forms: epic and the intimate. Nashville, a Doomsday kaleidoscope set to country music, splashed the whole South with his wily cynicism; Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson said that American history was a lie dressed up in showbiz frills; and A Wedding, his black spray-paint on a four-tier nuptial cake, contained 48 characters, for no better reason than that Nashville had had 24. But there was a quieter, artsier side to Altman...
SENTENCED. James Barker, 23, U.S. Army specialist; to 90 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to participating in the rape of a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and the murder of the girl, her younger sister and her parents last March in the village of Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad; in Fort Campbell, Ky. Asked why he did it, Barker, who cut a deal to avoid the death penalty and agreed to testify against his four alleged co-conspirators, said, "I hated Iraqis ... They can smile at you, then shoot you in your face without even thinking about...
...botched, seven-yard punt by junior kicker Matt Schindel from the Harvard one-yard line, a gaff that gave the Bulldogs by far their shortest field of the afternoon. Schindel also pooched the opening kick of the second half out of bounds in a short-lived stint as kickoff specialist, a spot that was quickly retaken by freshman Patrick Long. “The field position was great,” Yale coach Jack Siedlecki said. “When you get a one-play drive and a turnover for a touchdown, that makes life a lot easier...