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...street pushes neither the fashion nor the mental-health envelope in Greenwich Village. There is universal love for Gigante's late mother Yolanda. "She was cooking, cooking, all the time cooking," says a neighbor. "She'd give me a hug and talk in Italian, and I'd just nod. I'm Jewish." Asked for her name, she slowly backs away. "No," she says. "They might kill...
ATLANTA: Eager to reverse its image as a union heavy out of sync with the national need for a revival of the 3Rs, the National Education Association is considering a proposal to streamline the process for giving bad teachers the boot by giving the nod at last to teacher peer reviews. In place for more than 10 years in some Ohio cities not represented by America's largest teacher's union, peer reviews allow teachers in good standing to work with all new teachers and with tenured teachers not making the grade, recommending dismissals. The NEA has long opposed...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: With a perfunctory nod to the wonders of scientific exploration, President Clinton stuck to his guns, announcing that he would continue the moratorium on federal funding for research into human cloning, while pushing for a legislative ban. That's the advice of his National Biothics Advisory Commission, which keeping the federal ban in place while discouraging (but not making illegal) private research on human embryos. OK, but few scientists are seriously pushing for cloning humans. The hard part? Determining just how far the research on human embryos should go. After all, a lot of folks passionately believe that...
...they care? Individually it seems they do. When I visit University Hall and talk with administrators, they listen, they nod, they at least humor me. They seem to be very nice people...
...surprise, the program opened with Goode accompanying Upshaw in Schubert songs. Either out of neglect or, more amusingly, as a nod to the super exposure of such music in this eternal Schubertiade of a year, the program notes made no mention of the five featured lieder. All from the last six years of Schubert's life, the songs in this set must have been chosen out of a desire for heavy and contant emotional contrast...