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Just a year ago, Vicksburg parents weren't such loyal customers. Like most school districts along the lower Mississippi, Vicksburg's had long hovered outside the orbit of education reformers. It was still largely segregated, and year after year its test scores stagnated. The schools were so overcrowded that at one building three teachers held class in the gymnasium at the same time. So parents took to voting with their feet. And their skin. Many white parents fled to private and parochial schools, while others began home schooling. Some black parents, convinced the schools in their neighborhoods were worse...
Part of the credit goes to her new producer, Damian LeGassick, who until now was chiefly known as a keyboardist for, and protege of, the influential British electronic producer William Orbit. LeGassick met lang in 1998 through Madonna, whose music Orbit was producing at the time. Wisely avoiding the fancy bells and whistles that many electronic producers seem unable to resist, LeGassick has instead imbued Summer with an organic, retro feel. Although it may lack some of the lushness of lang's earlier work, it creates a dramatic counterpoint to her shimmering voice. He opens the bossa nova-tinged Summerfling...
Robinson knows we'll see chimps back in orbit before we see a federal mandate for vacation time. But he hopes a debate on the bottom-line realities of burnout will inspire a rash of enlightened self-interest among employers. So before you see how far you can get this summer on your short vacation leash, take a trip to Escapemag.com and sign a petition. Provence, Tuscany, the Greek isles--your employer owes you nothing less. Workers of the world, unite...
...Rain check, typically 5. Tony Blair's brand-new son 8. Polish partner 12. eBay halted bidding on a charred rifle from here 13. Stevedores' org. 14. Take on board 15. It boosted the space station to a higher orbit 17. Gray area?: Abbr. 18. "Peachy-keen!" 19. The House voted to repeal a __ tax enacted to finance Spanish-American War 20. Get to work on TIME? 23. Key at the upper-left corner 24. __ Hamoukar, site of a recently discovered 6,000-year-old city in Syria 27. Like the Sabin vaccine 29. One of L.B.J.'s beagles...
...cozy up to this wing of his party? The answer, so far, is a qualified yes. In fact, some polls now show Bush with as much as a 10-point lead over Vice President Al Gore, thanks in large part to the Texas governor's skillful disengagement from the orbit of Pat Robertson and the Christian Coalition, forces he was pressed into befriending by the insurgency of primary opponent John McCain. But whether he could successfully go from a mere flirtation with the left of his party to the embrace that would come with the selection of a pro-choice...