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...fans. The most colorful band member was an elderly man who dressed like some of my Grandpa's card game buddies, and looked like he belonged driving a tractor instead of laying down a ska line on the trombone. Entrain doesn't have that much of a reggae sound, except for some pseudo-Rastafarian moments (like their recent album title All is One) and their apparent preference for similar chemicals. Any group that bills itself as a combination of "Rock, Blues, Ska, Calypso, Dub, Zydeco, World and Jazz" tends to not be very good in any of these, and Entrain...
...Schmid is simplistic on calculators, incorrect on "downgrading skills," hyperbolic on the "avant garde reformers," irrational on textbook economics, ill-informed on "statistical studies and anecdotal evidence," inverted on the role of "understanding" in the "New Math " of the 60's (except that it was, indeed, "the mathematicians" who pushed that misguided effort into our schools) and tangential about "textbooks." He is correct to call for continuing improvement in teacher education to support more challenging mathematics in every classroom, but wrong to downplay the central role of pedagogy in pre-college math classrooms...
...exceeds the prudence of statesmen." Suddenly a bumper crop of The Unexpected (including disclosure that New York's Roundhead moralist had been committing adultery) had turned Giuliani's bracing Senate race-to-the-death against Hillary Clinton into something like "Days of Our Lives." Soap opera alters history. Everyone except Rudy says Rudy will drop out of the race now. Hillary, whose political career seems to take strange, triumphant energy from the sexual irregularities of the men in her life (parse that karma, if you can), appears destined to become the junior senator from New York, representing a state where...
...This was proposed in a manner that was not understandable," said Cambridge resident Eli Yardin, who attended the council meeting. "It was put forward so that no one, except a few people, had a clue what it was about...
...culture, which dictates that the way you break the news of your Ec grade to your parents, your roommates, your siblings and your drinking buddies (or whether you do) is not the same. But in a world where all is judged in snapshots--where consistency is not valued except as a "next" button--fitting the story together takes some work...