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...come from or what your language is," observes Educational Historian Diane Ravitch. "If you arrive with high aspirations and selfdiscipline, schools are a path to upward mobility." Particularly when there is a close working relationship between the school and the family. "Schools cannot do the job alone," says Ernest Boyer, president of the Carnegie Foundation. "But schools must work much harder for all parents to be partners in the process...
...Ernest Hemingway ordered doubles at Harry's Bar on hot Venetian mornings. Noel Coward savored them too. The Bellini, for 40 years a Harry's signature, is a romantic sort of drink -- fizzy on the tongue, dizzy on the mind and wonderfully pretty in pink. Now it has crossed the Atlantic triumphantly, as Cipriani has opened two dolce vita restaurants in New York...
Bennett has some markedly ecumenical company, including Carnegie Foundation President Ernest Boyer, a liberal. Boyer's 1986 book College: The Undergraduate Experience in America takes higher education to task for disjointed careerist study programs, confusion over goals and lack of a liberal arts core curriculum. Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, declares himself a Hirsch fan. "Education holds our society together only as long as what is taught has value and is important," he says. "You can't teach reading with comic books and rock-star magazines and expect kids to be educated...
...will be quicker to sound the alarm than Congress. Both Houses passed legislation earlier this year to "codify" the fairness doctrine, but President Reagan vetoed it as "antagonistic to the freedom of expression." Congressional backers of the doctrine are preparing to try again, and one of them, Democratic Senator Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, denounced last week's FCC action as "wrongheaded, misguided and illogical." They face an uphill battle, though, against both the Administration and the press. As the Washington Post pointedly editorialized, "The FCC has done the right thing, and Congress should take no action to overturn...
...senior vice president of Federal Express who flew combat missions in Viet Nam and did a stint with the Air Force's Thunderbirds precision-flying team, is expected to win easy confirmation. The Senators, however, put McArtor on notice. "You have got a crisis on your hands," declared Ernest Hollings, the South Carolina Democrat. Warned Ted Stevens, an Alaska Republican: "If it remains as fouled up for the rest of the summer as it has been in June, we will have ((legislation)) by September to answer it so it doesn't happen again next year." Congress is currently considering scores...