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By Liz Bowie | April 3, 2007
It used to be that a fat envelope in the mail meant you'd gotten into the college of your choice. Thin meant you were out. That was how high school students learned the result of their big college search. The news still comes this time of year, and it sometimes arrives by letter. But seniors might just as easily learn through an e-mail they open at midnight or from a Web site that a fellow student tells them to check - right now. What hasn't changed is that anxious teens are waiting for an answer from colleges that they believe will change their lives.
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By Dennis O'Brien | December 1, 1999
At Liberty High School, Principal Randy Clark sees steady jumps in enrollment and wonders whether he will have to delay replacing desks to purchase needed textbooks.At newly renovated Francis Scott Key High School, George Phillips also worries about textbooks, and whether he will have enough money to buy state-of-the-art equipment, such as computer software for graphic arts students."We're always scratching around, trying to find ways to fund things," said Phillips, who is in his 10th year as principal at Key.Carroll County's seven high school principals were concerned enough about rising costs and budget constraints this year to write a letter to a top school administrator complaining about funding problems, teacher shortages and low staff morale.
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By NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE | July 31, 1999
ATLANTA -- After bludgeoning his wife and two children to death with a hammer, and just eight hours before slaughtering nine people in the brokerage houses where he traded, Mark O. Barton typed a chilling confession on his computer and warned that he planned to live just long enough to kill "the people that greedily sought my destruction."The letter, which Barton apparently wrote near sunrise Thursday and then left in the Stockbridge, Ga., apartment where he had killed his family, suggested that he was tortured by his estrangement from his wife, by his losses in the stock market and by unexplained fears that he said had been "transferred from my father to me and from me to my son."
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By John Rivera | April 29, 1999
It is a "sacred task" and a religious obligation for Jews to work to alleviate poverty in their communities and in the world, according to a rabbinical letter on the poor approved yesterday by the world's Conservative rabbis.The rabbis, who wrap up the five-day meeting of the Rabbinical Assembly at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel today, approved "You Shall Strengthen Them: A Rabbinic Letter on the Poor," which urges their congregations to participate in local action programs, to give to charity and to study what Judaism teaches about their religious obligation to those less fortunate.
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By Michael Dresser | August 12, 1999
State Sen. Alex X. Mooney says "militant homosexuals" are out to get him, and he's asking conservative Republicans to pony up "at least $500" each to help him defend his Frederick County seat.In a strongly worded fund-raising letter, the 28-year-old freshman GOP senator asserts that he led the successful charge this year against Gov. Parris N. Glendening's bill that sought to grant civil rights protections to gays and lesbians.Term used repeatedlyThe result, Mooney said, is that "the militant homosexual lobby is targeting me for defeat."
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By Peter Jensen | July 25, 1999
David Krause was scared, but this 11-year-old wasn't dead yet: He slathered insect repellent on his arms and legs and, with his bunkmates' help, shut tight the cabin's doors and windows.Just minutes earlier, a counselor had rushed to the campfire: A giant bug called a "needle-finch" is coming this way! Run! If it bites you twice, you'll die!The boys and girls sprinted to their bunks.Although 4-H summer camp had unexpectedly put his life in mortal danger, Krause did what any level-headed camper does when suddenly confronted with free time: He wrote a letter to his parents.
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By David L. Greene | August 22, 1999
An anonymous letter criticizing two of Carroll County's top three school administrators and complaining of low employee morale will be taken up by the school board at a scheduled meeting Tuesday.The letter -- dated Aug. 3 and signed only "building administrators, secretaries and central office" -- states that many in the school system feel alienated by the leadership style of Superintendent William H. Hyde and Dottie Mangle, the assistant superintendent of instruction."We love this system and it's children but it is no longer a system where we are willing to give 110%," the letter states.
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By David L. Greene | August 22, 1999
An anonymous letter criticizing two of Carroll County's top three school administrators and complaining of low employee morale will be taken up by the school board at a scheduled meeting Tuesday.The letter -- dated Aug. 3 and signed only "building administrators, secretaries and central office" -- states that many in the school system feel alienated by the leadership style of Superintendent William H. Hyde and Dottie Mangle, the assistant superintendent of instruction."We love this system and it's children but it is no longer a system where we are willing to give 110%," the letter states.
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By David L. Greene | November 30, 1999
In a pleading letter to a top school administrator, Carroll County's seven high-school principals complain of low staff morale and echo teachers' fears that classrooms are being shortchanged.The unusual letter, which calls for hiring more teachers, has raised concern among school board members and has sparked an examination of the relationship between administrators and school staffers."I've never seen a letter like it before," Board President Gary W. Bauer said. He was surprised that the authors -- who sent the board a copy of the letter -- decided to involve board members instead of dealing with their concerns internally.
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By Peter Hermann | February 26, 1999
A white Baltimore police lieutenant was suspended yesterday as the department investigated charges that he made comments troubling to black officers and repeatedly undermined the commissioner's strategies.Police commanders ordered a swift inquiry based on an anonymous letter sent to Commissioner Thomas C. Frazier on Monday. By Wednesday, 15 detectives had descended on the Southwestern District and interviewed dozens of officers.Lt. Ernie D. Meadows, a 27-year veteran, was ordered to a desk job Wednesday night.