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...state and to private contractors. At every stage, the stigma associated with the loss of status and autonomy encourages those who can to leave the failing school, while those who don’t have the resources or the parental support to switch schools are left in a privatized trap that likely does even worse on Bush’s tests than it did in the first place. And to make matters worse, the president has underfunded his own initiative, assuring that the students who are left behind in the failing school don’t even receive the programs...
...SNACK TRAP Tired of cleaning up crushed munchies, Christine Moss patented the Snack Trap, a tough snack repository that contains the inevitable mess...
...Venus Williams and Andy Roddick got bounced in tennis, the gymnasts weren't nearly as sparkling as the glitter in their hair, and Michael Phelps looked merely human. Before long, though, the U.S. was sitting in its customary place atop the medal standings, with golds in everything from double trap shooting to road cycling to gymnastics; the swim team alone took 28 medals. While flip turns and double Arabians are cute in a quadrennial sort of way, they do not display the full range of what Americans consider athleticism, nor do they make easy metaphors for national character. That...
...Tadesse's bronze in the men's 10,000 m. Paraguay won surprising silver in the men's soccer. And the United Arab Emirates won its inaugural medal - a gold - when Ahmed al-Maktoum, a member of Dubai's royal family, shot to victory in the men's double trap...
...American Association in a Boston suburb in 1996. State representative William Reinstein, the class clown of the statehouse, strode over to Kerry and introduced himself as Butchy Cataldo, a former legislator. Kerry, long mocked by local pols for spending too little time in the state, fell headlong into the trap. "Butchy!" he said, slapping Reinstein's back and telling him how good it was to see him again. The story spread like butter through the halls of the statehouse...