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...president's budget proposal also beefs up funding for secondary school education, but to limited effect. Though the overall budget for public schools will be increased by 11 percent to $29.1 billion, this money will still be distributed through rich and poor districts in a fairly even fashion. A bit of saving grace comes from a $400 million increase in the Title I appropriation which is used to aid poor children academically. But the administration's F.D.R.-like insistence on a computer in every classroom (and the $500 million next year so allotted) reduces the overall productive capital that might...
Thanks so much for sharing. You can be forgiven, though, for thinking the President is a bit disingenuous when he includes himself among the sanctimonious. It may not matter who started it, but he wants everybody to know that it sure wasn...
...will Diller be one of the CEOs who set them up? One can imagine--albeit with a bit of effort--some interactively televised descendant of Consumer's Edge and HSN merging with Silver King's stations and studio to become a force in 21st century media. In the absence of a brand name like Paramount or cbs, though, that would be a trick on a par with Diller's last one: building a fourth network on the backs of The Simpsons and Married...with Children...
...juicy book and a good one. It may even be a bit of a trendsetter. Like Katharine Graham in her recently published autobiography, Personal History, Farrow questions her own passivity in dealing with men and blames herself. Farrow had advantages from the start. She was born to Hollywood royalty (her mother was movie star Maureen O'Sullivan; her father, John Farrow, a director). Among her contemporaries were Candice Bergen and Liza Minnelli. Farrow went on to a major movie career of her own (Rosemary's Baby, The Great Gatsby). She married Frank Sinatra while still in her teens, and, later...
Columbia did, however, provide a bit of a scare to the Crimson in their first meeting. The 70-62 Crimson win was the closest an Ivy League opponent has gotten to the Crimson this season...