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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides addressing broader goals, smoothing out financial differences could make "choice" -- a policy permitting parents to move their children from schools they do not like to ones they do -- more palatable to critics. Until now, the chief complaint has been that choice encourages parents to abandon poor inner-city schools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Big Shift in School Finance | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

More than 25 years ago, Desafinado and The Girl from Ipanema swayed the world to the sinuous sound of bossa nova. Now a new generation of musicians is discovering the old seducer: Brazil. Some of the world's leading pop stars -- David Byrne, Paul Simon and Peter Gabriel among them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Old Seducer Returns | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

The Brazilian star perhaps most widely admired abroad is Nascimento, who credits trumpeter Miles Davis, saxophonist John Coltrane and the Beatles as influences. In airy harmonies that resound with the church music of Minas Gerais, the state in east-central Brazil where he grew up, Nascimento writes uplifting sound poems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Old Seducer Returns | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Did a moment come and go last week in which raw U.S. power should have been used quickly and decisively? It is one of the oldest and most difficult questions in the two centuries of the American presidency. Almost every occupant of the Oval Office has had to answer it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency Is Bush Bold Enough? | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Bush has been hailed for his restraint in the troubles besetting the Soviet Union, China, Poland, Hungary and, earlier, Panama. But there has always lurked the probability that sooner rather than later, U.S. muscle would be needed to subdue a tyrant. In the minds of many, a doubt has lingered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency Is Bush Bold Enough? | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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