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It is a dog day of Cambridge's sweltering summer, the day after Teddy Kennedy with-drew from the presidential sweepstakes. But the pleasantly air-conditioned Kenned School of Government is abuzz with activity as on most other days, figures rushing through snakelike corridors, stopping briefly to salute one another...
The reasons cited are familiar to anyone who has wondered about the decline of U.S. education generally. Teachers are inadequate. Children distracted by television are not interested in book learning. And there are the accumulated influences of modern life, ranging from divorce and the decline of the family to lack...
"If you're filling the gaps for all the poor kids, it's got to be at the expense of someone else," Davis said
So it goes in a desperate suburban world, where the filling station operator is only too happy to pick up an over used credit card and turn it in for the reward, where an IRS audit can strain a marriage to the breaking point, where a grandfather must move in...
Lastly, Moye pays tribute to our century's greatest cellist by filling out the disk with three short works associated with Casals: the Siloti transcription of the second movement from Bach's organ Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, and Casals' own arrangement of the ever-lovely Faure song "Apres un reve...