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...citizenship. The system's interim CEO, Robert Schiller, has called the city's schools "academically bankrupt." Within the district many administrators and teachers blame this failure on the fact that Baltimore, despite the extra costs of running an urban school system, spends less money per pupil than surrounding suburban counties do, echoing a comparison made in similar school-funding battles being waged from New Jersey to Alaska. But such comparisons say nothing about why even poor districts somehow manage to produce a handful of excellent schools, such as Baltimore's Canton Middle School (see box), flourishing even though...
...social climate of the decade. Lee's portrayal of the 1970s is scarily realistic. He doesn't overplay period detail: the furniture is slightly tacky, the shirt lapels are wider, and Kevin Kline's sideburns come halfway down to his chin, but none of this changes the ageless, affluent suburban setting. The film lets the audience laugh at the decade, but there are disturbing undertones to even the funniest scenes...
Johnson plans to make BET into what marketers call an umbrella brand, under which any number of businesses can shelter. The first BET SoundStage restaurant, a black version of the Hard Rock Cafe, is already a profitable attraction in suburban Washington. The next one opens at Disney World in Orlando, Fla., in May. Johnson says he may open as many as 20 SoundStages around the country, and take the chain public...
...apparently, enticing. After 25 years of underground recreational use by big-city clubgoers and New Age types (Timothy Leary was, of course, a fan), K has exploded in the past few months onto the suburban drug scene. In February, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration warned that use is increasing at teen "rave" parties, the marathon dances that have spawned a new youth subculture. Anti-drug czar Barry McCaffrey's office added K to its list of "emerging drugs" in 1995; the office's latest "pulse check" of the nation found K "all over." St. Louis, Mo., Tampa, Fla., and suburban...
...honors student and a local football hero. In 1967, a year after he graduated from the University of Michigan Law School, his father was forced from office and jailed after a federal-court conviction for jury tampering. In July 1975, Hoffa mysteriously disappeared from the parking lot of a suburban Detroit restaurant. No one has ever been charged with the presumed murder...