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They may spend as much as 60 hours a week creating lesson plans, teaching, advising students, grading, supervising extracurricular activities and meeting with colleagues and parents, yet teachers may earn 25% to 40% less than other white-collar professionals. While Frederica Capshaw, 52, is thrilled to be teaching math in a Bronx, N.Y., school district, she is aware of the price she paid for leaving American Express in 1992. "It has taken me eight years," she reports, "to catch up to the $52,000 I was making as a financial planner...
...past the cancer. The mayor still has not chosen a treatment, and the decision is clearly agonizing for him. Surgery to remove the prostate gland offers the best chance of eliminating the disease but carries a risk of impotence and incontinence. An alternative treatment--implanting tiny radioactive "seeds"--has less risk of side effects but doesn't always eradicate the cancer. "I find myself unable to make the treatment decision yet," Giuliani confessed Friday. After he grapples with that, he will have to figure out how to deliver on his vow to extend the good times to all the communities...
None of these questions are explicit, much less answered, which is the whole idea of the chairs, of the memorial, of modern memorials in general. As America anticipates the first Memorial Day of the new century, the country's most recent projects to honor the dead are becoming ways to understand itself. In the past, memorials in America, like those of prior civilizations, tended to be stone-made celebrations with simple purposes--to inspire, consecrate and glorify in the name of national stability and grand prospects. History was portrayed as success. Grant's Tomb, the men on horseback, the male...
Modern memorials are more fluid, both in purpose and construction, than they once were--less set in stone. In March, widows of those killed in Vietnam launched an "Interactive Widows of War Living Memorial" on the Internet. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982), the Korean War Veterans Memorial (1995), the Women in Military Service for America Memorial (1997) are all replicated in a number of states and towns. In 1998 a scale model of the Vietnam Memorial wall, called a Healing Wall, became a traveling exhibit so that people in local communities could experience the feelings of those who visit...
Nathan Glazer, the Harvard sociologist, takes a different, less admiring view. "The mute memorial is all around us," writes Glazer in The Public Interest; and the most successful of them, the Vietnam Memorial, "does not tell us that [those killed] died for their country, or for liberty, or for democracy, or even that they died in vain. It says nothing except that they died." We may speak to the memorials, says Glazer, but they no longer speak clearly to us. Modern art has replaced excessive clarity with none...