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There they were, parents and students from the New Explorations Into Science, Technology and Math school, banging drums and shaking maracas in front of Cipriani Wall Street to disrupt the black-tie benefit where Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein was speaking. There they were again, hundreds representing NEST, as the school is known, passionately chanting "Save the NEST" in front of City Hall. And there they were, hoisting "Don't Tread on Our School" signs on a wooded patch of East Hampton near the Ross School, a private school founded by Courtney Sale Ross, the wealthy widow of a former Time Warner...

CUBAN HOLIDAY COURTNEY SALE ROSS "didn't break any federal laws when she snuck into Cuba on Wednesday night". The wealthy widow of Time Warner founder Steve Ross flew into Havana on her private jet. Presumably, she'll meet with Fidel Castro, who is starved for conversation since most of the captive nation's intellectuals have long since emigrated or been jailed. A source says, "It was all very hush-hush." Her lawyer says there's nothing underhanded about the trip. "I can assure you she is in Cuba lawfully," Jerry Harper assures us. "She is on a philanthropic and educational exercise. She's not on...