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ITEM WAS NOT SCANNED DESCRIPTION 0 Aiewspap, EFTA00260078 The Palm Beach Post B Guard the assets: TUESDAY. JUNE 23. 2009 PalmliteachPost.com OCALA Alleged Epstein victim asks a judge to appoint No Jobs, no worries: Apple thrives despite BUSINESS a receiver. Story, 26 the absence of its ill CEO. Business, 60 North Palm's quarantine kids r By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN who had swine flu on their the Palm Reach Post SlcelVnter Fort Lauderdale-Hol- Was it eturn to U.S. flight to Beijing. lywood realty as bad as it FORT LAUDERDALE — For International sounded?'" Elizabeth Doane came Th nea rly eig ht day s, Air port, where they were e She home to South Florida dentsBenjamin School stu- greeted by a pack of televi- their arrplans to celebrate on Monday carrying an swelte we re con fine d to a sion cameras and one ver ival today with a rin g Bei jing hot y party for Elizabeth and unusual souvenir from where el, relieved mother. the air condition- Rebecca Doane, a to Randell. Bryan is headed her trip to China: the ing Nairobi, Kenya, where face mask she was forced to pre duc ts we re cov ered North Palm Beach estate ven t tran sm issi on he and his father are doing to wear during a week of of and trust attorney: said vol the HINT virus, guards she cou unteer work. quarantine. prevented their escape her ldn't wait to see The Doane siblings ar- The Chinese govern- and kids — and find out rived in ment detained Elizabeth sui workers in biohazard more about their trip. China two weeks ago with a group of 28 high 18, and her brothers, ture ts too k the ir tem per a- "I can 't wait to get them Bryan, 16, and Randell, 13, twice a day. in the car, and say tell school students and three Th teache because they sat by a man end eir strange trip me what really happened. to Peo rs from the People Rebecca Doane MIOUEL F WPM' c • ‘p,,,no ed Monday night in Tell me ple Ambassador Pro- (right) and her children what it was like. See QUARANTINE. 58 Ilk face quarantine questions at the airport Eliz abeth and Randell on Monday. 'The air just seems hot — like you'r e standing next to a furnace or RICHARD PIPPIN, president of Ray Roofing Company something.' W. Palm weighs 16% tax rate hike With tumbling property values, city officials expect to cut another $7 million from the budget. By TONY DORIS Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BF.ACII — Pro ues in the city have plumm perty val- more steeply than expected aseted even as two months ago. That me recently budget cuts next year and a ans more tax rate that could rise as pro per ty percent, officials said Mondamu y. ch as 16 Finance Director Randy Sh en EFTA00260079 The Palm Beach Post B TUESDAY. JUNE 23.2009 PalingeachPost.com LOCAL BUSINESS Guard the assets: Alleged Epstein victim asks a judge to appoint a receiver. Story, 2B No Jobs, no worries: Apple thrives despite the absence of its ill CEO. Business, 6B North Palm's quarantine kids return to U.S. By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN who had swine flu on their the Fort Lauderdale-Hol- Was it really as bad as it Palm Beach Post Staff Writer flight to Beijing. lywood International sounded?'" FORT LAUDERDALE — For nearly eight days, Airport, where they were She plans to celebrate Elizabeth Doane came The Benjamin SchOol stu- greeted by a pack of televi- their arrival today with a home to South Florida dents were confined to a sion cameras and one very• party for Elizabeth and on Monday carrying an sweltering Beijing hotel, relieved mother. Randell. Bryan is headed unusual souvenir from where the air condition- Rebecca Doane. a to Nairobi, Kenya. where her trip to China: the ing ducts were covered North Palm Beach estate he and his father are doing face mask she was forced to prevent transmission and trust attorney, said volunteer work. to wear during a week of of the HINI virus, guards she couldn't wait to see The Doane siblings ar- quarantine. prevented their escape her kids — and find out rived in China two weeks The Chinese govern- and workers in biohazard more about their trip. ago with a group of 28 high ment detained Elizabeth suits took their tempera- 1 can't wait to get them school students and three MICHAEL F. *ELROY/Sun Sentinel 18, and her brothers, ture twice a day. in the car, and say 'tell teachers from the People Rebecca Doane (right) and her children Elizabeth and Randell Bryan, 16, and Randell, 13, Their strange trip me what really happened. to People Ambassador Pro- face quarantine questions at the-airport on Monday. because they sat by a man ended Monday night in Tell me what it was like. See QUARANTINE. 5B ► The air just seems hot — like you're standing next to a furnace or something.' RICHARD PIPPIN, president of Ray Roofing Company W. Palm weighs 16% tax rate hike With tumblingproperty values, city officials expect to cut another $7 million from the budget. By TONY DORIS Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH — Property val- ues in the city have plummeted even more steeply than expected as recently as two months ago. That means more budget cuts next year and a property tax rate that could rise as much as 16 percent, officials said Monday. Finance Director Randy Sherman delivered the bad news at a city corn- owth3.:Inti uatritqlinit un JIM luativirst year EFTA00260080 • Get updates on today's scheduled execution PalmBeachPost.com See photos and special features on Death Row Finances imperil high school games across county, state IN SPORTS 201 0;on CURL UP WITH OUR SUMMER BOOK QUIZ Can you match the excerpt to its source? IN ACCENT Williams sisters reach quarters at Wimbledon IN SPORTS The Palm Beach Post Tuesday, July 1, 2008 Phase II of Scripps project unveiled ,,„. West Final -r 50 cents lap otos 'as wog after we picked Scripps to be at Ju- • Scripps discovery may help Developing the tract won A hoped-for biotech hub could emerge on the Briger tract. piter," Palm Beach County Corn- Alzheimer's fight. Local, 18 • 1.6 million square feet on 70 acres missioner Karen Marcus said. lor The Scripps Research Institute N., But details of the plans have not family. which owns the Briger B ALEXANDRA CLOUGH rounding Scripps Florida. lx.en mad, public prop,rty. aim to jointly submit a is 2.4 million square feet on 100 acres ips EFTA00260081 DELAWARE& PHILADELPHIA SELECTIONS TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2008 / Partly sunny. 8 NATIONAL EDITION FAT 1 Lo e child Ashley (above) in OK! Magazine. 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BREEDERS' CUP 24-PAGE PULLOUT GUIDE k tr. • 4, - 'f • EFTA00260083 - MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, LATE CITY FINAL 25 CENTS 2007 / Cloudy. 54 / Wea ther: Page 20 ** www.nypost.com Obl'Boyz! Bumbling Giants lose to D SEE SPORT!' allas Gov aide: EXCLUSIVE Darren Dopp (left), a former top aide to Gov. Spitzer. asked another senior staffer to lie about the plot to smear Senate Majority Leader Joe Bruno. The Post has learned. Robeil M Pier. EFTA00260084 Cerabino takes on all things Trump at the ADT PalmBeachPost.com Watch kids' impressions of Hannah Montana Ricky Williams 5 PLACES GUV, GAL PAL SPLIT to practice Monday, TO EAT ON Lake Clarke Shores mom, could play Nov. 26 THANKSGIVING Crist no longer dating IN SPORTS IN TGIF JOSE LAMBIET'S PAGE TWO, 2A The Palm Beach Post Friday, November 16, 2007 Final Edition 50 cents Bush hurries to put holiday flights into express lane Declaring that "business as usual is Other moves to cut delays will not good enough for American travelers," Opening up airspace, other measures to keep planes moving Bush announced at the White House a se- take longer to implement. ries of detailed technical steps to reduce Opal lases: The Pentagon will open unused Wired: An FAA Web site, www.fly.faa.gov, will air traffic congestion and long delays that mitary airspace from Florida to Maine to create 'a provide up-to-date information about airport delays. have left passengers stranded and turned Thanksgiving express lane' for commercial airliners. Passengers can sign up to have delay notices sent By MICHAEL I. SNIFFEN holiday travel into "a season of dread for to their mobile phones. Associated Press too many Americans." Incentives: The Transportation Department will propose an increased bump fee that airlines must Runway use: New runway use patterns have been WASHINGTON — In a year of record In the most innovative move, the Pen- pay to ticketed travelers who wind up without a seat. delays, President Bush stepped forward tagon will allow commercial airliners instituted at New York's JFK that allow four to six Thursday to try to speed air travelers to to use two air corridors off the eastern Preiects:The FM is imposing a holiday moratorium more planes to arrive each hour, and Newark is their Thanksgiving gatherings and back on nonessential maintenance projects. about to add new takeoff routes. See FLIGHTS, 9A Is p home on time. Bonds indicted Two Kims tied for ADT lead Cubans it in steroid swim to probe The baseball star is shore, freedom charged with perjury and obstruction. By PAUL ELIAS The Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO - The home run king wasn't home Thirty-four safely land in Palm free after all. Beach, but a man, 39, drowns. Barry Bonds, baseball's ca- reer home run leader, was in- A smuggling suspect is detained. dicted Thursday on charges peijury °cobs:ruction of Anhir L22 EFTA00260085 nceipAeDsi ateas:dt tre Leslie; • ,ray streeter do Pilfts PalmBeachPosteco tu /" Seer e " to holiday gi g-1uide Palm Beach County IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL SECTION revamps marinas SMILE, i s FLORIDA 59 to make room for more ADO! Ta cp. FAU 20 FANS ! gallery of 1-N VIRGINIATECH 44 MEGAYACHTS GO 1 ginning dogs -• MIAMI r"z RORIDA STATE 14 24 IN BUSINESS BANANAS IN ACCENT AU MARYLAND 16 The Palm Beach Post Sunday, November 18, 2007 Final Edition C $1.25 Realtors aim U.S. helped Pakistan guard nukes to alter luck Debate swirls about security highly classified program to help Pakistan's president secure his coun- ■ U.S. warns N1usharraf on reveal critical details about its arsenal has though it was supposed to be in op- eration this year. at Las Vegas after the millions in aid, which officials say was secret. try's nuclear weapons, according to current and former senior adminis- emergency rule, 5A undercut the elle°. tiveness of the secu- A raft of equipment, ranging from helicopters to night-vision goggles convention tration officials. rity effort. to nuclear detection equipment, was But as Gen. Pervez Musharraf's The aid, buried in secret por- given to Pakistan to help secure its troubles leave the future of that tions of the federal budget, paid for nuclear material, its warheads and The spirited event sets By DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM.' BROAD country's leadership in doubt, debate training Pakistani personnel in the the laboratories that were the site 7hr New York Times is intensifying about whether Wash- United States and the construction of of the worst known case of nuclear an attendance record WASHINGTON — During the past ington has done enough to help pro- a nuclear security training center in prieliferation in the atomic age. as agents seek an edge. six years, the Bush administration tect the warheads and laboratories, Pakistan, a facility that US. officials has spent almost $100 million on a and whether Pakistan's reluctance to say is nowhere near eo!iipletion, even See PANSTAN, 5A ► By MARILYN GEEWAX Palm Brack Post-Cox News Stater LAS VEGAS — With so many homes and condos sit- ting on the market month HEROES OF THE EPIDEMIC HIV IN THE Haitian prison spreads disease, after month, their fresh-paint smell fading and owners' costs rising, Realtors must fund a way to sell. CARIBBEAN sem/wooer, pare but a doctor does what he can They must. For many, the two-year sales slump is cutting commissions and straining nerves. To re- store their spirits, more than 30,000 members and guests of the National Association of Re- altors arrived at the Venetian Resort Hotel Casino last week for their annual conference and expo. The record number of participants came seeking information on their industry and craving the crazy energy of the never-sleep city where luck can turn in a blink. Among the most enthusias- tic was John Mike, chairman of the Realtors Association of the Palm Beaches. While home sales have dropped nationwide, they have plum- meted in Florida,I. which is EFTA00260086 75 Isles hope New York Post, Monday, November 12, 2007 not to trip on the road By DAN MARTIN 'led Nolan saw lots of empty seats at Nassau ISLANDERS Coliseum last year, his first as Islanders head coach. FLYERS "Early last year. it seemed we couldn't get more than 5,000 or 6.000 fans at games." Nolan said of playing in Lco_ Tonight — 710 ESN front of a nearly half- WBBR (1130 AM) empty house. Now. were getting 14. 15, 16 what they are, as to- [thousand) almost every night's game.in Philadel- GOAL POSTPONED: Martin Brodeur makes a save Saturday in the Devils' 2.1 loss to the Islanders, a defeat night. It makes a huge phia will be followed by that postponed the goalie's quest for his SOOth career victory until tonight in Pittsburgh, at least. Getty Images difference. Getting fans ones in Pittsburgh. in the building means a Newark and at Madison MARTIN SHORT lot and it helps. Were Square Garden. trying to bring hack the The Islanders have glory days here, know- been solid and Nolan ing where we came from isn't overly concerned and knowing where we that a change of scenery have to go to." will hurt. But right now, after "It doesn't matter rolling off four consecu- where we play, whether tive wins at home to pull within two points of first -place Philadel- here or in Africa. if we play like we have been. we'll be fine," he said Brodeur goes for 500th win again phia. the Isles have to following yesterday's cling days and Brodeur stands venture out on the road skate. "Everything's fall- By of practice. 499-271-121. for four straight. ing into place right Pyrut leading to Though the Devils re- Devils verted to their inoffensive L.. \-4,v The first is tonight now." Thursday's against the Flyers, who Satan has played a sig- Brodeur victory ways against the IsLanders, have played three more nificant part in that, tal- years. over the they can take encourage- lying the game-winner for his Flyers. ment from the three goals games than the Isles. tory he Despite good results so in each of the last three Brodeur in two games they've re- owe hit has started ceived from previously far, Isles right wing matches. 'I'her Miro Satan isn't ready to "I've never done that eight goalless Dainius Zubrus. his fan straight and Jamie Langenbrunncr also call his team one of the before," Satan said. "I'm night, 14 of 16 this is close to making his sea- best in the league — not just glad I'm helping close season for son debut after September until it wins consis- out." back the Devils, hernia surgery. tently on the road. • som 5-8-1. with The Devils. 3-5.2 in their "We have to take the Bill Guerin's status vole that mile- last 10, could use any help same attitude with us." for tonight's game is un- ized al 1 me slow in arriving. agai they can get. One of their Satan said of the Isles, certain after he leR Sat- -le has one edge on Roy, six triumphs this season who haven't left Long urday's 2-1 win over the tali his chase for the record. adv came here on Oct. 17, with Island since Oct. 18. -If Devils because of a cut. iy notched his 500th vic- Arron Asham netting the He will be reevaluated sco ry in his 993rd game: you want to be success- Nas winner. ful and be at the top, today. ... Freddy Meyer, Br odeur has played 905. ■ you have to be able to reacquired after being 'odour. however, has col- The Devils play host to only cted 18 of his 499 victo- do the same things away waived by the Isles NIIL the Rangers on Wednes- earlier this year. skated L•s via shootout, an al/c- day. ... John Madden sat from home. That's what gam m unavailable to Roy. good teams do." yesterday and will be Bre out practice yesterday, as with the team tonight. hose des ended as tlei. well. The Isles will find out crate Roy played 1,029 games soon enough . if that's dammaronenyposteom mast •r a record of 551.315.13, mark mversontnypost.com TIM FRIDAY DIGIT AL 30 imsausistt EFTA00260087 .SINE•m•••••=srme--, —... EPSTEIN HAS ONE LESS • WORRY THESE DAYS Theragood news, and some bad, for a Palm Beach billionaire accused of paying suburban girls, o underage one as young as 14, for sex. and • The good: Jeffrey Epstein's a no longer looking at the possibility of a lengthy HICKEY- 2 sentence. The FBI is off his FREEMAN Is back. The bad? The redusive 54-yearold is still expected J.C. Fairvalley of * to spend up to 18 months Specorto rno Post . • behind bars and could be Epstein 0. legally branded a sex of- Hickey-Freeman will FRENCH CONNECTION , fender. be in our shop to Palm Beachers were wethrepresented at lliesday night's White • "This case is absolutely going to House state dinner honoring French President Nicolas Sarkory in D.C. end without a trial within the next two • months," personally present In addition to Bocibizman Mark Guzzetta and his date, Leigh Martin said the Wall Street prodigy's (pictured here with Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne), • legal eagle in WPB, Jack Goldberger. their new clothing other guests with local roots included GOP-supporting Palm Beach- a Seems that Goldberger, and Epstein% ers Gay Gaines and her hubby, Stan; Chief of Protocol Nancy Brinker 0 dream team of lawyers that includes media collection. Stop by and her son, Eric; and WashingtonRedskins minority owner Dwight darling Alan Dershowtz and former Bill Cat- Schar and wife Martha, newcomers to The Island. o ton prosecutor ken Starr, have delivered for for a preview of this the politically connected Epstein. 04 11 2040 2 2 20 2020 * 2 02 2200 es ° . In September, Dershowttz commented fine clothing and Saturday, • that there were constitutional issues with save $100 when you November 10 THE LOWDOWN 0 a• the case, including the feds' involvement The G-men came in after a livid Palm 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. .. Farewell to WPTV-Chan- of HD technology ... Former Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter — whose order a custom suit; nd5 General Manager Brian Palm Beach Gardens Council- crew spent 11 months in 2005-06 watching Lawlor, who% : • woman Annie Delgado, who lost Epstein house and sifting through sex also savings on sport headed to the her seat 21/2 years ago to Jody ' toys in his garbage — requested their help. station-owner Barnett after shifter campaign, * Reiter and State Attorney Barry Krischer jackets and trousers. • Scripps TV has packed her bags and left feuded over charges for Epstein, with groups head- town. She landed'.in Ocala, in • Reiter accusing Krischer of going easy on 1• If you wish, call us for quarters in Central Florida, where the set Mr Moneybags. Cincinnati to be- up another real estate company • Now, said a source close to Epstein who • 1n appointment. come the chain's :., Resounding success Wednes- asked • thorities to remain nameless, federal au- corporate sales dy night for the first Patin have agreed to allow Krischer to • boss. Lawlor was Beach Food and Wine Festival, proceed solo. a visible GM, Lamm which brought an unusually "The feds were overreaching the whole fronting public high number of young faces to • time," the.source said. "I think they're now service an- • Worth Avenue. Thirty top area • satisfied with the resolution we're about to 312 Worth A;enue, Palm Beach (561) 655-1141 nouncements at the perennially chefs dished out their fare to • reach in state court" No. 1local broadcaster. Lawlor, nearly 600 people alongside the That includes, according to the source, • a guilty 9 PALM BEACH • BOCA RATON • FORT LAUDERDALE • NAPLES• SARASOTA who has been here on-and-off shopping gallery at 150 Worth. plea to one count of felony solicita- since 1991, just presided over The shindig raised nearly 20 • tion of prostitution. sweeping changes at the WPB G% for the Peggy Adams Ani- • The case has drugged on in the court station, including the addition mal Rescue League ... • system for nearly 17 months. Got a news tip? CaN lose at (361) 820.4725 or e-mail jose_lambiet@pboost.ccm Because of a reporting error, The The error appeared on Page 7B of the Palm Beach Post on Wednesday gave Local section. incorrect information in a story a about the death of Boca Raton lawyer CORRECTIONS Eric Glatter in a scooter accident in Because of a reporting error, Ike Nassau, Bahamas. The story incor- Rd on ittesday incorrectly named & CLARIFICATIONS rectly said that Glances fiancee told colleague ?Ina Lekiert that the West Palm Beach-based Sohtron De- vices as a subsidiary of Honeywell In- scooter% steering column did not ternationaL Solitron never has been a seem to be working properly. In fact part of the Honeywell corporate struc- the fiancee told that to a hospital ture. The error appeared on Page 3B volunteer, who repeated it to Lewert. of the Local section. i ret svc-,3-t arkittaigatedi _ Cultomer Service The PalmBeach Post Florida Lottery EFTA00260088 IM THE PALM BEACH POST • SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2008 WSeN The Palm Beach Post JOHN BARTOSEK, Editor DOUG FRANKLIN. Publisher CHARLES GERARD', General Mono., DIESL FUELE. 37 BILL ROSE, Managing Editor RANDY &HUM. Editor WU, Editorial PIN JAN TuCKWOoD. Associate Editor MADE FROM HAMBURGER BARRY BERG, VParatlation JOILN KELLY. VPAdvertaing IARRY SIEDLIK VP& Treasurer GALE 110VMEN, IT Community Relations and Mantes* . AND FRENCH FRY GREASE' PEP GALLON LINDA MURPHY. VPHuman Resources BOB MIFF, VPOperatimo TIM BURKE. VPDigital Media JAURA DECK CUNNINGHAM. Dirrctor, Marketing Service 7 YOU Dimir KNOW? THE SAUDIS ewswT 10th-grade FCAT scores EVEN FASEFOOD RESTAURANT • IN AMERICA! show problem with test In 2001. just 37 percent of Florida Reading results for 10th-graders could read on grade level. This year, according to FCAT crucial class are awful. results released Tuesday, 10th-grade students reading on grade level had increased to a whopping 38 per- the state eventually pinpointed cent. Give them credit for scoring the problem. This time, the best 4 points higher than last year's explanation state Education Com- sophomores. But the overall "gain" missioner Eric Smith could offer since 2001 again calls into question was that it was part of a normal Florida's focus on one test. statistical fluctuation. The fact that reading gains in other grades over the same period This year's results also perpetu- Gail Collins ated the perennial head-scratcher. have been substantial is yet more evidence that something is screwy with the FCAT. Either the test isn't providing the information and in- centives schools need to figure out How can so many students who can't pass the reading test do such a stellar job on the writing test? As - noted above, just 38 percent of 10th- Obama's post-primary crisis how to teach high school students graders could read on grade level, Everybody knows that the first Maybe Al Gore will nun to be the public face of the search. to read, or the test isn't accurately but 78 percent of them could write rule in picking a vice presidential You hire experts to do the back- measuring how well high school on grade level. nominee is to do no harm. Really, you can choose anybody. I low dumb change his mind. ground checks. You would want your students can read. Gains in other And while we're on the subject, own trusted advisers sitting in on the we'll mention just one more screwy would you feel if it turned into an interviews. The other two committee grades are fine. But if they erode be- embarrassment? This is why the fore students get out of high school. thing about the FCAT: Although But there's all this other stuff. Mr. members, Caroline Kennedy and a they're not of much use. Tenth high school students supposedly careful, modem candidate sets up a Johnson is the former head of Fannie former deputy attorney general, could have to "pass" the FCAT to graduate, screening system. Mae, which under his direction, reg- have managed on their own. grade also is a key year, since that's Now ask yourself: How dumb when students may decide to drop the passing grade for the 10th-grade ulators say, engaged in accounting But no, we have to have a seasoned reading ECAT is set below grade would you feel tf you got in trouble practices that were, at best, sloppy. At wise man whose standing among the out if they don't think that theyll be over your selection for the vice able to graduate. level. So although just 38 percent the same time, he sat on the boards movers and shakers of the business of 10th-graders can read on grade presidential screener? of five corporations, where he ap- and political elite seemed to hinge Last year, the state asked experts Barack Obama is having the first to study whether the 10th-grade test level, 57 percent "passed" the read- peared to serve as cheerleader for on the fact that he feels every single ing FCAT for graduation purposes. post-primary crisis, a moment in the theory that executives deserve to one of them deserves more money. is scored too strictly, and expects re- which the only conceivable response sults this summer. Now there's even The graduation standard for Florida be paid obscene amounts of money. Gentle spirits may decide that it's seniors thus is something below a is: What was he thinking? a good thing that the Obama cam- more reason to wonder. This year's James Johnson, who resigned How does someone go up to Barack 10th-graders — the same ones who 10th-grade reading level. Obama, who once sponsored a bill to paign is getting this sort of thing out Under Gov. Bush, the FCAT Wednesday from the Obama vice of the way early. Crueler ones may did characteristically poorly on the presidential selection committee, is curb excessive executive compensa- reading FCAT — scored a huge, 11- changed from a test that was sup- tion, and say — "You know the vice note that at least they can't blame posed to guide a student's education an old Washington hand who had this one on Hillary. percentile increase over last year on helped Walter Mondale and John presidential search committee? For a national reading exam. into a test used to shame "failing" chairman, how about Jim Johnson? Rather than falling into complete schools into somehow doing better, Kerry with the same task. His aura depression at such an early point in Something else in this year's of experience apparently was not Remember, the guy who tried to FCAT results is screwy. Reading and to award vouchers. The Legis- give the head of UnitedHealth Group the game, let's work under the as- lature, at long last, began to back diminished one whit by the fact that sumption that the people involved scores for Florida fifth-graders fell both his candidates lost and that one $1.4 billion in stock options?" to 67 percent on grade level from away this year from that failing When Mr. Johnson quit. McCain were so tired that they didn't know of them ran into embarrassing contro- what they were doing. 72 percent last year. Experts can't model and reduced the importance versies over his running mate headquarters issued a statement explain why those scores fell while of FCAT scores in school grades. saying that the fact he had been se- Just before the final primaries. I The immediate cause of Mr. John- spoke to George McGovern, who is most other scores were increasing. But the grades still are there, and so son's downfall was a charge that he lected in the first place raised "seri- This anomaly involves the same is a basic question about the FCAT: OUS questions about Barack Obamis the gold standard when it comes to had been given a sweet deal on three .disastrous vice presidential selec- class that — as third-graders in Does the test accurately measure home loans by the head of the Coun- judgment" Not a great avenue of at- 2006 — was given a reading test the reading ability of 10th-graders? tack for a campaign in which a large tions. If Sen. Obama ever asked hind trywide Financial Corp.. which Sen. for advice, Sen. McGovern said, that the state later admitted was If it doesn't, that's bad. If it does. Obania has criticized (or its role in the chunk of the top staff recently was too easy. But at least in that case. that's worse. dismissed for being lobbyists. he'd tell him to avoid exhaustion. subprime lending crisis. Since Coun- trywide seems to EFTA00260089 1413 7 .-:=11 013:7,1 =arnmnril3SIarantr - ark-naLT EPSTEIN HAS ONE LESS • WORRY THESE DAYS a +here% gwd news, and some bad, for a Palm Bew.h billionaire accused of paying underage suburban girls, one as young as 14, for sex. a The good: Jeffrey Epstein% ♦ no longer looking at the O possibility of a lengthy • sentence. The FBI is off his • back. The bad? The reclusive 54-year-old is still expected , • spend up to 18 months behind bars and could be Epstein • legally branded a sex of- - FRENCH CONNECTION • fender. Palm Beachers were well-represented at 'Iliesday night's Wtiite "Thil case is absolutely going to House state dinner honoring French President Nicolas Sarkozy in D.C. end without a trial within the next two In addition to Boca bizman Mark Guzzetta and his date, Leigh Martin • months," said the Wall Street prodi6y's (pictured here with Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife, Lynne), o legal eagle in WPB, Jack Goldberger. other guests with local mots included GOP-supporting Palm Beach- Seems that Goldberger, and Epstein's ers Gay Gaines and her hubby, Stan; Chief of Protocol Nancy Brinker dream team of lawyers that includes media and her son, Eric; and Washington Redskins minority owner Dwight 0 darling Alan Dershowttz and former Bill CNn- Scher and wife Martha, newcomers to The Wand. ton prosecutor Ken Starr, have delivered for the politically connected Epstein. • 0004 00 00 0 00090 10 00000 000 00 In September, Dershowitz commented that there were constitutional issues with e4 O the case, including the feds' involvement. THE LOWDOWN .. ♦ The G-men came in after a livid Palm .. Farewell to WPTV-Chan- ..of HD technology ... Former Beach Police'Chief Michael Reiter — whose nel S General Manager Brian • Palm Beach Gardens Council- crew spent 11 months in 2005-06 watching who s- woman Annie Delgado, who lost Epstemb house and sifting through sex headed'to the ' her seat 2)i years ago to Jody • toys bilis garbage — requested their help. station-owner Garnett after fl itter campaign, • • Reiter and State Attorney Barry &isobar • Scripps TV hag packed her bags and left • • feuded over ch rges for Epstein, with groups head- town. She landeckin Ocala, in • Reiter accusing Krischer of going easy on - • rs in Central Florida, wheie she set • c Mc oneybags. - •• Cincinnati to be- up another real estate company • said a source dose to Epstein who come the chain's :.:,..Resounding success Wednes- asked to remain nameless, federal au- • thorities have agreed to allow Krischer to corporate sales day night for the first Palm • • proceed solo. boss. Lawlor was Beach Food and Wine Festival, a visible GM, which brought an unusually • "The feds were overreaching the whole Lawlor high number ofyoung faces to • ' time," the.source said. "I think they're now fronting public service an- • Worth Avenue. Thirty top area • satisfied with the resolution we're about to nouncements at the perennially chefs dished out their fare to • reach in state court" Na 1 local broadcaster. Lawlor, nearly 600 people alongside the That includes, according to the source, who has been here on-and-off shopping gallery at 150 Worth. a guilty plea to one count of felony solicita- since 1991, just presided over The shindig raised nearly 20 e tion of prostitution. sweeping changes at the WPB Gb for the Peggy Adams Ani- o The case has dragged on in the court station, including the addition mal Rescue League ... • system for nearly 17 months. Got a news tip? Cail Jose at (561) 820.4725 or e-mail Jose_lambiet@pbpost.com I EFTA00260090