Word: brightest
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...idea seems simple enough: create schools with special programs, and they will attract students from all parts of the city. Such "magnet" schools are becoming increasingly popular not only as a means of providing superior education-and not just to the brightest children-but also as a method of desegregation. Detroit started some magnets four years ago; new ones are planned for Chicago and New York. Last week thousands of Boston parents signed their children up for a variety of innovative courses, ranging from aviation technology to bilingual studies, in 22 magnet schools due to open in September...
...Verdi's La Traviata. The stand began with Traviata at Tokyo's 4,000-seat NHK (Nippon Hoso Kyokai, or Japan Broadcasting Corp.) Hall. With Soprano Sutherland dying rapturously as Violetta and Tenor Alexander showing a cad's remorse as Alfredo, it was one of the brightest in a long line of grand Met opening nights...
Paradoxical? "Misha" is more than that. He is an enigma compounded of moody shyness, bold theatricality, post-adolescent intellectual pretense and a sweetness that makes him melt at the sight of an appealing house pet. But that is how it should be for the newest, brightest star in an art that is itself a series of paradoxes. What other discipline demands of its practitioners that they train like athletes and sweat like stevedores in order to achieve romantic effects of the most ethereal nature? What other art places such emphasis on tradition, yet depends on such unreliable resources-the kinesthetic...
Muscatine and Thal played a strong top doubles match to win 6-2, 7-6 over Awad and Avery Hughes. Muscatine and Thal will be Radcliffe's brightest hopes in the Ivy (and Seven Sisters) Tournament to be held at Vassar this weekend. Last year the duo stormed through the field only to lose to a strong Princeton pair in the finals of the tournament...
High jumper Mel Embree, the only man to topple world-best Dwight Stones this year, is Harvard's brightest star. He has a brilliant supporting cast in the high jump with the likes of John McCulloh and freshman Dan Sullivan...