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...kind of place where, when I left to go check out Burlington, Wolf and Saunders, 50 and 59, dropped some scones into a care package for my trip. Burlington has tougher challenges than Fort Madison. The much bigger, grittier downtown was built for the industrial railroad hub that Burlington once was, and big, boxy buildings sit vacant now. But just as in Fort Madison, there is something worth saving here, where neighborhoods sweep up gracefully from the banks of the Mississippi to form an amphitheater with terrific views of downtown and the bridge that spokes majestically across the river...
State officials cannot recall anything like this ever happening before in Tennessee. Parents who had been quietly questioning the quality of care now wanted answers and changes. But day-care operators with powerful allies in the state legislature argued that this was an isolated incident, that tougher requirements, such as lower child-to-staff ratios, would put centers out of business. Nothing happened. "Everybody had something to say," notes Tomeka Williams, who still watches the van in which her daughter died drive by each morning, "but nothing was done...
...politics behind it. The corps's flow chart makes clear that civilians are supposed to be in charge, but in reality the outfit has pretty much been allowed to run itself under commander Joe Ballard, a three-star general. Sweeney's allegations spurred Army Secretary Louis Caldera to issue tougher guidelines in March re-asserting civilian control over the corps. But Caldera's efforts generated a rebuke from three senior Republican Senators: Robert Smith of New Hampshire, chairman of the Environment Committee; Ted Stevens of Alaska, who runs the Appropriations panel; and John Warner of Virginia, who heads the Armed...
Many kids try on different names, but, according to Seattle psychologist Laura Kastner, it's usually a pass- ing fancy. It's tougher, she says, to quash an alternate identity when it's been around a while. In other words, we should have nipped this in the bud. (It could have been worse: when Kastner's goddaughter Jane was eight, she changed her name to Roxie--and she's still Roxie...
...contrast, shot 65-69-71-67 and led virtually from wire to wire. Sure, you can say the same of Secretariat, but his big victory was accomplished in less than three minutes; Larsen's and Jordan's in just a few hours. That's one thing that is tougher about championship golf than other sports--you must maintain your concentration for four long days, with no support from teammates...