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THIS IS A STORY ABOUT CAROL AND PAUL MEDIAN, she 32 and he 34, married for one year and living just south of Bloomington, Indiana. They are as average as can be. Last year Paul earned $28,449, and Carol made $23,479, precisely the midpoint paychecks for men and women their age. It also happens that their part of Indiana is the population center of the U.S. Since no real-life couple is truly typical, however, I have created the fictional Medians, going by Census figures, to give a sense of the exact middle of American life. In ways...
...Failing to snuff out the devotion of European Catholics, the dictator would probably have tried picking cardinals and Popes as the next best thing. We can only wish the Chinese no luck at all in this outrageous effort to assert their power over the life of Tibet. DAVID WREN Bloomington, Indiana Via E-mail...
...nation's ailing, bureaucratically entrenched public schools. Now it appears that the champions of privatization may have seriously underestimated the challenges--political, organizational and financial--of such radical change. Christopher Whittle's highly touted Edison Project has only four schools in operation. Education Alternatives, Inc., based in Bloomington, Minnesota, has signed no new clients in more than a year. Its contract to manage an elementary school in Miami Beach, Florida, expired last June; its nine-school project in Baltimore, Maryland, remains controversial, and its high-stakes deal in Hartford, the largest privatization experiment in the nation, is on the verge...
...NICKELL AND BART EVERSON, A couple of goofy, twentysomething guys from Bloomington, Indiana, are sick of small fame. For three years their satirical public-access TV show has played to critical acclaim in the greater Bloomington area, but it has never attracted the kind of national attention that would capture a slot on network TV. Though local sponsors chip in enough to keep Everson clothed, housed and fed, Nickell still has to support himself as a waiter. So the pair set their sights beyond broadcast TV, beyond cable TV, to the computer networks. Last week, as their 85th episode, Global...
Last year, Konik opted to stay home in Bloomington, Minn., where he could commit himself to a full recovery. The year was filled with work, rehabilitation and playing in a local men's hockey league...