July 15, 2007
By JONATHAN D. GLATER and ALAN FINDER
SAN FRANCISCO — When San Francisco started trying to promote socioeconomic diversity in its public schools, officials hoped racial diversity would result as well.
It has not worked out that way.
Abraham Lincoln High School, for example, with its stellar reputation and Advanced Placement courses, has drawn a mix [...]
Bids at an online auction for a pair of John Lennon’s trademark round granny glasses could hit the $2 million mark.
The gold-rimmed glasses, worn by the former Beatle on the band’s Japan tour in 1966, were placed on the block Friday by auction house 991.com, which says bidding hit £750,000 ($1.6 million Cdn) in the first [...]
Lady Bird Johnson died Wednesday of natural causes.
“My mother had 94 delicious years. She lived them to the fullest,” daughter Luci Baines Johnson said Friday. She said despite her mother’s medical problems, she recently toured a university art museum and delighted over a pasture of wildflowers in the nearby Hill Country.
Wouldn’t it be nice if [...]
