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...original version of this article suggested that the University of Detroit Jesuit High School and Academy is the only Catholic college-prep school in Detroit. That was based on a definition of college prep as a place where 75% or more of students take college-prep courses and go on to college. In fact Detroit Cristo Rey, a Catholic high school launched last year, aims to be a college-prep school as well, though it has yet to graduate a class...
Wilson's strategy is to take radio back to its local roots while at the same time keeping his company private and well capitalized. "When you cut the costs out of this business, you cut the product. Then you don't have anything to distinguish you from iPods or anything," he says...
...Just take a look at this year's two great breakout stars of partisanship: Florida Democrat Alan Grayson and Minnesota Republican Michele Bachmann. Once upon a time, their junior status in the House of Representatives, with its 435 power-hungry politicos, might have confined them to their cramped offices and after-hours speaking time on C-SPAN. Instead they have turned outrageous utterances into viral sensations on YouTube. Tapping into the partisan fervor surrounding health-care reform, Grayson and Bachmann have built national profiles and become the darlings of their respective ideological camps. And though they represent polar political extremes...
...general wants to take war to his own people. Kayani was forced to do so by a surge of violence radiating from the South Waziristan headquarters of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a group of several militant organizations seething with grievances against the state and influenced in part by al-Qaeda. The 10,000-strong TTP, which was led by Baitullah Mehsud until he was killed by a U.S. drone in August, is largely made up of members of his Mehsud tribe, though an increasing number of militants from the Pakistani heartland of Punjab, along with an estimated...
...army "realized that the gains they had made in Swat would not be sustainable unless and until they go after these guys in South Waziristan," says Hussain. "The government does not want to be in the position where these guys have made themselves so strong that the Taliban take root in Punjab, because then the game...