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...Carr Center, known until last June as the Human Rights Initiative, was started after Carr--with the KSG's Douglas Dillon Professor of Government Graham T. Allison--decided that the KSG needed a human rights program. Carr's multi-million dollar donation helped start the research, teaching and training program...
Central to Sugar Town, which was written and directed with casual aplomb by Allison Anders and Kurt Voss, are the efforts of a new band, composed of old rockers trying to re-establish themselves. In the end, that comes down to getting one of them, played by Michael Des Barres, who is exclusively interested in teenyboppers, to sexually service a potential backer, the hilariously voracious Beverly D'Angelo. The look on his face when he discovers the joys of mature sex could serve as the emblem of this sweet-tempered movie, which eventually touches--wryly, knowingly, forgivingly--on at least...
...Allison, 27, of Hosmer, S.D., recently landed an associate's job at the prestigious New York City law firm of Dewey Ballantine. It was something of a surprise, since, although he was editor of law review at Notre Dame, for most of his education, Allison didn't go to school--at least not to a formal one. Neither did Tad Heuer, 22, of Holliston, Mass., who won a Marshall Scholarship to the London School of Economics following his graduation from Brown University...
...those parents who are considering home schooling as an alternative to America's often politicized and sometimes dangerous public and private schools, Allison and Heuer are attractive models. But they may not be representative. Not all products of home ed turn out to be academic stars. Many home-educated students, like apprentice chef Rebecca Durkee, 22, of Livonia, N.Y., and Katie Harwood, 22, of Logan, Utah, a hospital accounting clerk, don't go to college at all. Nor are all home-schooling parents Bible-thumping Christians teaching their kids at apron-string length to protect them from sex, drugs...
...children, Ben Allison believes home schooling is a feasible and beneficial option. "My mother will be disappointed if I don't home-school my kids," says Katie Harwood plaintively. Will...