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Charlie Haden had nothing to prove, Gonzalo Rubalcaba did--that neatly summarizes the outspoken energy Cuban pianist Rubalcaba injected into the jazz trio led by legendary bassist Haden on one of the two recently released Montreal Tapes...
...Afro-Cuban flavor permeates Rubalcaba's playing, placing his virtuoso stylings in an effective and distinctive context. This world music influence is most evident on the Spanish-style waltz "La Pasionaria," but is apparent throughout the album's six tracks. Often there is a dance-like and regular feel to his solo lines, accompanied by percussive comping; other times he will simply transplant wholly Cuban figures into his improvisations...
...might--but so will books, skeptics say. Little evidence suggests that computers--or educational software, or the Internet--demonstrably enhance student learning. Says Stanford University Professor Larry Cuban, an authority on the history of technology in American education: "Anyone who tells you computers are more effective than anything else is either dumb or lying." Better technology doesn't necessarily make kids better students; good teachers and smart curriculums do. "Laptops are like the new electronic tablet notebook--they have good potential as a writing tool and a place to store information," says Allen Glenn, dean of the University of Washington...
...built for students that comes with an infrared connection to the school's computer network, a water-resistant keyboard and a built-in security device. That's an expense still too great for many cash-strapped districts. "Schools that bought into the earlier generation of technology are stuck," says Cuban. "The capital investment in desktops makes it difficult to buy this new thing called laptops." Harvard's Martha Stone Wiske suggests that schools purchase "a rolling cart of 10 or 15 laptops," rather than one for every student, and offer them to different classes when teachers develop lessons that...
...amazing that when President Clinton is facing his version of the Cuban missile crisis in the standoff with Iraq, he is being subjected to harassment about whether he had sexual relations with Lewinsky. It is potentially disastrous that the leadership of the Western world is in the hands of what appears to be a democracy gone mad. IAN ELLIOTT Reigate, England...