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Twenty-eight of the nation’s elite colleges and universities—including all the Ivy League schools except for Princeton and Harvard—announced an agreement last Friday to boost financial aid to their neediest students...
...pushing through a "monumental achievement with bipartisan support," the real work has yet to be done. All that's guaranteed right now is that every child in America will be tested every year in grades 3 through 8 in math and reading. But such tests will mean nothing (except big profits for test makers and test review companies) unless they are good tests that are scored fairly...
...comics and gossip columnists talked incessantly about Roth and his scandalous book, often speculating about the author's personal life. Surely, so the wisdom ran, Portnoy's was really autobiographical; how could Roth have created such a vividly persuasive portrait of a man in hilarious turmoil except by actually being that...
...done a number of public art projects in recent years. The latest (still in design) is for the state of Illinois, commemorating the first pioneer to settle in what eventually became Chicago: a fur trader named Jean-Baptiste Pointe du Sable, (1745-1818). Little is known about Du Sable except that (through his mother's Haitian ancestry) he was black. This became a matter of some importance to the city's black community, and Puryear, who lived in Chicago in the 1980s, has been approached about a possible monument to its obscure founder, in a waterfront park. Justice at last...
...after she had been in New York City for almost 10 years, the Mississippi woman known as Cassandra Wilson made a recording titled Blue Skies and set herself ahead of all other jazz singers, except for the longtime giants Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald and Betty Carter. With a sensuality too purely adult and far too lyrical to be confused with either the mush or the vulgarity that defines too much popular singing, Wilson remakes standard songs as though none of the lessons laid down by the greats have been lost...