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...California superintendent of public instruction. The choice model of rewarding schools for attracting students rather than successfully educating them troubles Albert Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers. "If your goal is merely to recruit students," Shanker says, "you can do that by offering a trip to Disneyland or with a good football team...
...earliest ideas about doing photo-journalism," he says, "came from being in Egypt. When I first got to Egypt I thought of it like Disneyland, because there's an amazing amount of freedom if you're a Westerner there...So I had a good time for a few months." Then the significance of social conditions began to sink in, particularly the startling contrast between "the wealth of the elite and the next to nothing of the poor people. You see those contrasts so much more clearly than you do here, even between wealthy Harvard students and homeless people...
...capital of Mitteleuropa," a center of communications and research. Half the local population has abandoned the city in the past 40 years, they note, leaving behind a hollow tourist playground built on a crumbling, honeycombed island. Without such an ambitious development plan, De Michelis claims, "Venice will become a Disneyland made for tourists only." He charges that opponents are unrealistic -- more concerned with saving churches than creating jobs. "They campaign against the death of Venice," he says, "but Venice is already dying...
...lands, in fact, ranging from India (the New Delhi Deli) and Italy (the Marco Polo eatery) to the Far East (the Dynasty restaurant) and something vaguely resembling the old Belgian Congo (the Safari Steakhouse). The decor inside the hotel is a giddy clash between the Forbidden City and Disneyland, in which virtually everything is either pink or purple -- unless it's gold. There are pink acoustic-tile ceilings, pink slot machines, pink Louis XV chairs in the reception area. There is a pink motorcycle parked in the '50s diner called Rock and Rolls, and there are pink chandeliers in Scheherazade...
...want Disneyland, you might as well go to Southern California...