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...Cohagan did all this despite fact that he hails not from the hockey breeding grounds of the Northeast, the Great Lakes or Canada, but from Parma, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland in the football-crazy state...
...Forest Lake, a suburb of St. Paul, after facing down a group of parents who wanted to charter a Montessori program, the local school board decided to form such a program of its own. In the small college town of Northfield, the threat of secession by a charter group led the district to create a Spanish- language immersion program for first- and second-graders, introduce multiage classrooms and enrich the math program for middle-schoolers. "The charter made it easier to change things," admits Northfield superintendent Charles Kyte. "If we weren't progressive enough and didn't change, then somebody...
...refugees "are completely shocked, stunned by the turn of events," says Peter Kessler, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees. Meanwhile, Serb leaders are scrambling to retaliate, vowing a speedy, major military response, and are already firing on civilians. Over the weekend shells rained on a Sarajevo suburb, killing two and injuring seven.Meanwhile, the U.S. -- which has threatened tolift an arms embargoagainst the Bosnian Muslims -- isn't likely to interfere. "It's hard to imagine the U.S. participating in that kind of an action against Bosnian government forces when they clearly have been the overwhelming victim...
...hideouts and rounding up 300 Hamas activists. But they were shaking the wrong tree. On Friday morning the Israelis received intelligence that the captive was in a house in Bir-Nabala, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, just three miles north of his parents' home in Ramot, a Jerusalem suburb. Throughout the day, Rabin said later, the Israelis considered a tentative Hamas proposal to exchange Waxman for Sheik Yassin, whom the government has considered freeing anyway because of his failing health. According to Rabin, the offer was never made firm by Hamas, but the militants did agree to extend their...
Romney soon moved with his family from Detroit to Bloomfield Hills, a wealthy suburb northwest of the city...