Jun. 10—The Frederick County Board of Education, during a meeting filled with emotional testimony Wednesday, voted to put Frederick Classical Charter School on probation, aiming to curb what community members described as a hostile and dysfunctional governance system. Despite the school's high academic performance, parents and administrators said issues with its governing body, the Board of .
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February 1995 This Gen X–heavy “Jobs” issue describes an early iteration of the gig economy.
For our January 2021 issue, in honor of our 60th anniversary year, we dug through our archives to present a snapshot of the magazine during each of our six decades. We discovered groundbreaking work, inspiring stories, and, yes, some errors in judgement. Here’s what we found:
The ’90s in 5 Scenes
A dig through our archives unearthed a cinematic rendering of Georgia just before the turn of the millennium
“The X-Files: Generation Xers aren’t so much breaking the old rules as making their own”
The epic romance between former president h.w. bush and his wife barbara lives on even after her passing. bush 41 tweeted this message, enjoy the great book and wonderful walk down memory lane this morning, yet another reminder how lucky i have been in my life. the tweet includes a photo of the 93-year-old bush in his hospital bed holding the copy of george and barbara bush: a great american love story. the book chronicles the bushes 77-year relationship. the former president, meanwhile, is expected to remain hospitalized for several more days after experiencing low blood pressure and fatigue. and cnn s camille bell goes back to college. here s a preview of tomorrow night. if you are like me, you went to college, if you re not like
He came out of the chute like a bull. when he said, you want the real wayne williams, you ve got him, i think all of us the jury understood that, yeah. i was probably my own worst enemy. i was an arrogant, bus-headed idiot at the time and i played right into these people s hands. i could see almost the shock in the jurors faces. my god, is this the same wayne that was up here yesterday? i could see that. patrick baltazar s stepmother was watching in court that day. i m like, this man got to be crazy. this man i mean, he it s like he s saying, yeah, i killed them, but you better prove it. can you prove it? he was doing everything he can to outsmart everybody. and it was like, i did it but can you prove i did it? camille bell, yusef s mother, believed wayne to be innocent. she feels that last day on the witness stand convicted him.
In the spring of 1980, police were still reluctant to listen to camille bell. children were dying on the streets of atlanta in the daytime. among them, jefferey mathis, only 10. like yusef bell, he walked down the street on an errand to this gas station to buy cigarettes for his mother. she never saw him again. what we had here was a predator. and what he was looking for was somebody who was cut off from the herd. and if you don t realize you re in trouble until you re in trouble, then you have no way of getting out. it would be another year before jefferey mathis body was found in the woods, miles from his home. his mother would join camille bell in forming a committee to confront the city s leaders.