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...cold, drizzly day, Kitaro Matsumoto, a 27-year-old Table-Mono vendor, pulls his cart down a side street in the riverside Kachidoki neighborhood. He wears a blue bandana, a yellow slicker and purple pants and he toots a plastic gold trumpet, Paa-puu, Paa-puu...
...apostles of home schooling like William Bennett believe the future holds more cooperation. He says school administrators will work to develop a "Chinese-menu-style education," for instance, that allows home schoolers to have a math class here and a band course there without buying the whole K-12 puu-puu platter. On the other hand, it remains to be seen whether public schools can still play a vital role in communities if they become simply another consumer good pushed by market forces and not a common good that transcends them...
...southwestern side of the Kaanapali area, where the low-slung Royal Lahaina, the Royal Kaanapali and the towering Sheraton-Maui, built on a lava rock outcropping, together share a $1,800,000 golf course, designed by Robert Trent Jones and blasted out of the slopes of Mount Puu Kukui. A $6,000,000 Hale Kaanapali Hilton condominium will open near by in February, to be followed by a 3,300-room hotel development built by Amfac, Inc., one of Hawaii's great factoring combines...
After nearly two weeks under virtual siege, Brigade Commander Colonel Lynnwood Johnson (whose men call him "The Big Puu"-Hawaiian for mountain-in tribute to his 6-ft. 5-in. stature) struck back. "I'm going to level those woods into a golf course," he said, waving his long arm at a dense patch of scrub spitting heavy Viet Cong fire. In three days his troops painfully pushed their perimeter out 2,000 ft. in each direction, followed closely by bulldozers slapping down trees and demolition and chemical teams fumigating and firing tunnels. By week...