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To: LindyBill who wrote (41547)	4/30/2004 10:46:49 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 793843

Eduwonk.com - Another reason liberals should love NCLB... By Andrew Rotherham ...all the data is a boon for litigation in the states aimed at making state school finance systems more equitable. Daniel C. Vock explains why in the new Catalyst Chicago. The punchline, as Michael Rebell a school finance attorney explains in the article, is: "...these reforms require students to take standardized tests and hold teachers and schools accountable for how well students perform. Through these requirements, states define what the standards are for an adequate education and provide data to show whether or not those standards are being met. If students do not, the data eases the way for plaintiffs to prove to a judge that the state isn't meeting its obligation..."

To: LindyBill who wrote (41547)	5/1/2004 1:43:51 AM
From: D. Long	Respond to of 793843

Speaking of pizza and scofflaws, Gaetano Badalamenti has died in prison. The "Pizza Connection" Sicilian Don. Interesting piece of history of the FBI and the breakup of the mob in the US. I lived down the street from Sal Salamone, one of the Italians caught up in the Pizza Connection. Went to school with his kids. Hung out at his restaurant. Kristel worked for him at the restaurant, after he got out of prison a couple years ago. Hits kinda close to home for me. There was a lot bodies floating in the Susquehanna in the 80s. Interesting history. news.bbc.co.uk ---------------------------------------------------------- 'Pizza Mafioso' dies in US prison Badalamenti reportedly died of a heart attack Gaetano Badalamenti, once known as the "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, has died at the age of 80 in the US where he was serving a prison sentence. Badalamenti became notorious in the US for masterminding a crime ring which distributed heroin and cocaine through pizza parlours between 1975 and 1984. He was sentenced in 1987 to 47 years in federal prison. Italy also convicted Badalamenti in absentia of the 1978 murder of a radio DJ who poked fun at the Mafia. The remains of Giuseppe "Peppino" Impastato were found torn apart by a bomb on a Sicilian railway line. Badalamenti was finally convicted of the crime in 2002 and sentenced to life in prison. Reuters news agency quoted an unnamed prison official as saying he died of a heart attack at a US federal medical centre in Devens, Massachusetts, on Thursday evening. Rival bosses Born in the village of Cinisi near Palermo in 1923, Gaetano Badalamenti became a key figure in the Sicilian Cosa Nostra in the 1970s. US prosecutors once labelled him the "boss of bosses" for his leading role in the Sicilian Mafia. However, the rise of a rival, Salvatore "Toto" Riina, forced him to flee Italy, and he spent some time in Brazil. In the US, he led a racket to import heroin from the Middle East and cocaine from South America, laundering profits through Swiss bank accounts. The "pizza" ring was worth an estimated $1.65bn.