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When Pennsylvania's Republican Governor sent out $100 rebates on school-district property taxes just before the elections, Democrats accused him of trying to buy votes. Now some taxpayers are returning the money--to school districts. The debt-stricken Philadelphia school district has already received more than $42,000 in rebate checks--mostly from suburbanites who say they feel underfunded city schools need the money more than their local schools...
...tourist poster, ca. 1930, showing two women chatting under a palm on a crag, with a luxuriant view of golden mountainside behind them: California as Promised Land, an earthly paradise, Eden without the snake. On the right, a photo of a suburban slide area in Los Angeles, where earthquake-stricken bungalows teeter on the edge of a muddy chasm at whose bottom lies an upside-down car. The heaven of nature, the hell (or at least purgatory) of black insecurity, both in the same place; a saga of innocence being continuously lost...
...SCHOOLS SHOWERED WITH TAXPAYER GIFTS When Pennsylvania's Republican Governor sent out $100 rebates on school-district property taxes just before the elections, Democrats accused him of trying to buy votes. Now some taxpayers are returning the money - to school districts. The debt-stricken Philadelphia school district has already received more than $42,000 in rebate checks - mostly from suburbanites who say they feel underfunded city schools need the money more than their local schools...
...Zack moved again to have Grossman's testimony stricken from the record, claiming it was irrelevant. Sauls denied his request and told everybody to go home...
...said that the issue of AIDS requires "world solidarity" and must not be left to the governments of the stricken countries...