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FROM JOHN TEDESCO – NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR WAKE COUNTY SCHOOLS

l Friends, We continue to give more children more opportunities. Today’s report notes a 16% increase since 2009 in students getting into our quality magnet schools and an 85% increase in families accepted in calendar choice schools. Many low-income minority families who were previously discriminated against from the old policy are finding new opportunity with […]

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PROTESTS IN SYRIA

APRIL 9, 2011 Syria Kills at Least 20 Protesters By FARNAZ FASSIHI Syrian security forces fired on protesters as tens of thousands of people demonstrated in several cities Friday, killing at least 20 people, wounding hundreds and forcing medical personnel to turn mosques into emergency wards, witnesses said. Amateur video shows thousands of protesters in

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ELIZABETH TAYLOR DIES

Elizabeth Taylor dies; screen legend was 79 By Adam Bernstein, Wednesday, March 23, 9:10 AM Elizabeth Taylor, a voluptuous violet-eyed actress who lived a life of luster and anguish and spent more than six decades as one of the world’s most visible women for her two Academy Awards, eight marriages, ravaging illnesses and work in AIDS philanthropy,

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ROMNEY ADDRESSES HEALTH CARE IN NEW HAMPSHIRE DEBUT

March 6, 2011 By Erin McPike BARTLETT, N.H. – Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took a step toward addressing his health care law problem in his first public appearance in the Granite State this year. Romney, who has told activists in the state privately that he will announce a presidential bid later this year, faces

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ANOTHER IRANIAN DEFECTION

FEBRUARY 25, 2011 Notable & Quotable As Libya boils, Iran’s Green movement claims another regime defector. Anne Jolis writing in the Journal’s Political Diary e-newsletter, Feb. 23: News of the mass protests—and government and military defections—that are threatening to topple the regime of Moammar Gadhafi in Libya has dominated headlines for days. But over the

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