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...training costs. New York City will pay about $25,000 to attract and train each of its fellows, including paying for each recruit to earn a master's in education. In this year's budget, Levy requested $50 million to expand the program. Cities including San Jose, Calif.; Denver; Baton Rouge, La.; and Kansas City, Mo. will have fast-track programs by the end of the year. Critics say that money would be better spent on bonuses to retain teachers already on staff, a fifth of whom leave the profession after three years. But many school officials say they would...
...Principal guest conductor Bernard Haitink directed with both ease and authority. His precise baton yielded wonderful control, yet there was never a sense of stiffness or tension. His elegant podium manner was only further complemented by the sound he received from the orchestra. The Tanglewood Festival Chorus, directed by John Oliver, sounded alternately warm and earthy in the right moments (such as the opening), although perhaps not “heavenly” enough for the beginning and end of the last-movement setting of Psalm 150, with its plaintive Alleluia’s. Stravinsky reveals in this movement...
...then Bush's next-biggest enemy reared its head: time. A visibly doddering Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) leafed through newspaper clippings and entertained interruptions from fellow senators for 45 minutes before finally passing the baton. A mini-debate ensued about how this White House's procedural behavior - the actual budget hasn't arrived yet; the Senate is working from the guidelines passed by the House - compared with the similarly new Clinton administration's in 1993. (That budget passed 51-50 with Al Gore's vote, if you'll recall, and worked out rather well for the White House.) And the minority...
...There are some encouraging signs, especially the near unanimity in condemning the use of force by ethnic Albanians in Macedonia. "This situation in Macedonia could spell strike three for the Albanians altogether," says Baton Haxhiu, editor of Kosovo's leading daily Koha Ditore. "Our reputation is being ruined. Our Western friends are turning into enemies." Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Stockholm to meet with leaders of the 15 E.U. countries, said - with an eye to his own problems in Chechnya - "these aren't rebels, but terrorists...
...line for China's young Internet revolution. "At age 26, I set up Netease," he says. "It's been just three years in my life. There are lots of other things I can do." Translation: China's first generation of Net pioneers is ready to hand over the baton...