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Sometimes you can see the crash coming before the train leaves the station. Not only was Diana Ross going on tour after years of ignoring her core audience. She was also going out with a Supremes reconstituted from Motown slurry, with the best seats priced at $500 a pair. Sure enough, the Supremes' Return to Love tour derailed last week after 14 dates, many played to half-empty houses. Ross released a statement claiming that tour promoter SFX had canceled the remaining shows, while SFX, which is reportedly paying Ross $20 million, begged to differ, claiming that only certain shows...
DIED. ROBERT RUNCIE, 78, outspoken Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1980s who criticized Margaret Thatcher and angered Prince Charles and Diana by recounting private conversations with them to his biographer, and whose efforts to improve relations with Rome led the Pope, in 1982, to pray with him in the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was murdered in 1170; in Hertfordshire, England...
...academically, gave the district fake addresses in order to attend majority-white schools. Those parents who stayed in the system often did so with a sense of resignation that turned to apathy. "You'd hold a meeting, and maybe one parent would show up if you were lucky," says Diana Brokaw, the mother of a second-and a third-grader. "It was pitiful...
...achievers? The district says that student attendance and behavior have both improved--and that drug use has dried up to such a degree that the district lost half its federal grant to combat substance abuse. More conclusive proof will come with test scores, due in late summer. Until then, Diana Brokaw is keeping a scorecard of her own. "The other day six parents showed up to chaperone a field trip," she proudly reports. "And two of them were dads...
...team was led by Nation editor Priscilla Painton, who edited the package, and our aptly named Special Projects editor Barrett Seaman, a former Navy man, who coordinated logistics and kept us in line. Other key crew members included photographer Diana Walker; Nancy Gibbs, who wrote the overview Essay; and our Midwest bureau chief Ron Stodghill and Southern bureau chief Timothy Roche, who coordinated the task of scouting out stories...