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...public schools. Efforts to archive consistency can result in uniformly moreover, communities may, understate mandate, lose control of what their schools will teach. Students, never accorded much of a role in planning their own studies, are losing whatever measure of free choice they did have, whether that involves taking driver education and not trigonometry, or opting put of the comprehensive high school entirely. True school reform, rather than replacing the failures on the phase in educational theory with those of another, should seek to offer as many different educational options as many different educational options as possible. There are many...
...built to serve as the Olympic Village strap on their skates and wobble up and down the hard-packed snow on the sidewalks and streets. There are fantasies here just as surely as in Philadelphia. They say with pride, "In school, the other kids call us 'Olympians.' " A cab driver buzzes about town with his new CB radio turned up to catch a dispatcher's grating squawk through the static. "We got this radio system new since the Olympics," he boasts. "Now tourists can call for a taxi, and we come just like in other cities." At the skating rink...
...free afternoon in the middle of the Games last year, a taxi driver was asked to take a first-time visitor to one of Sarajevo's historical sites. He drove around the city and the hillsides above for more than three enthusiastic hours, then took her to his home for thick, black coffee with his family. On returning to the press village, he refused payment. At the end of a visit this year, another taxi pulled up to the modern Butmir Airport entrance, where the fare was paid. Gratefully a tip was offered, but the driver declined...
...unable to respond. Passing him into his mother's arms, the driver offered consolation: "Ma'am, I think you ought to know he was hell while he lasted...
...banned briefly (a judge lifted the censorship), and demonstrators have jostled and insulted ticket holders in line. The reason for the fuss is the film's plot, a contemporary version of the virgin birth. Mary is the outspoken, truculent daughter of a gas-station manager; Joseph is a taxi driver who at the news of her pregnancy mutters about how good her other lovers must have been; the Archangel Gabriel is a drunken roughneck; and Jesus turns out to be a turbulent toddler who exclaims, "I am the one who is," leading Joseph, behind the wheel of the family...