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...least I hope so. Roger Angell once wrote that baseball is about joy, a feeling that can send "a grown man or woman to dancing with joy in the middle of the night over the haphazardous flight of a distant ball." It is also about hope, a necessity for disappointed fans. Especially for long-frustrated Red Sox fans, who after a tough season now cry out, with complete faith, "wait 'til next year...
This fall 68 teachers in 33 states will be able to send their students' writing electronically into distant classrooms. Later in the year, the fourth edition of Voices Across the Wires, a student-edited collection of BreadNet writing, will be published. "Having real situations to write about has really changed their attitude," says Joanne Tulonen, whose Wilsall students were among the first to use BreadNet. "Before, their writing was artificial. Now they see themselves as people with information worth sharing...
...least a dozen tours have offered purportedly the same entertainments as those on the Great White Way. But are they really? The idea that what you see in Peoria might be every bit as good as Broadway makes many New York theater professionals scoff. In the not too distant past there was ample basis for derision. On this summer's evidence, however, the doubters may be narrow-minded and wrong...
Below, far below, is the ceaseless crash and sighing of the sea. Behind, tall redwoods climbing up the mountainside. Off to one side, hot mineral baths laid down on ground once sacred to the local Indians. And out in the distance, along the blue horizons, the spouting of a distant whale. There, on a sunlit lawn high above the sea, a score of visitors assemble at first light. Retired schoolteachers, lay therapists, dentists from Ohio -- all move their limbs slowly, to the sound of a flute, through the Tai Chi motions of fire, water and gold...
Strange, wonderful system that somehow brushes the most humble. Does Jesse Jackson understand the deep farm problems, the complicated roots of small-town deprivation? His own background is so very distant. But he understands want and being left out. We will know before long whether that is enough to link the mighty White House to the tiny town of Greenfield in the history books yet to be written...