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School days. The high school dropout rate in many inner cities is well over...
Nothing is really purely funny in this movie about two would-be comedians struggling for recognition in a Manhattan night club. Even their jokes provoke more thought than laughter. Steven (Tom Hanks) is a medical school dropout whose comic routines are pointed reminiscences of his own failures as a student. Lilah (Sally Field), a New Jersey housewife with a yen for humor, fails miserably at first at the business of being funny. She resorts to time-worn Polish jokes--you know the type: "My husband's Polish. He gave me something long and hard when we got married...a last...
WHILE an arbitrary ranking of the "best big schools" has very little to do with where Harvard stands in reality, some of the report's other lists--namely, dropout rate and faculty quality--point out the areas where Harvard needs to improve. Each school has its own strengths, its own limits and its own areas to improve. A school billed as the world's most prestigious university should aim to live up to that reputation...
Since January, more than 4,700 Jews have left the Soviet Union carrying Israeli visas. But only 18.7% of them have actually ended up in the Jewish state. Israeli officials, eager to promote the Zionist ideal and increase their stagnating Jewish population, have been agonizing over this "dropout" problem for years, and last week they took drastic action to resolve it. The Israeli Cabinet voted 16 to 2 to force Jewish emigres to leave the Soviet Union by way of Bucharest, where officials have agreed to compel them to proceed directly to Israel and nowhere else. Soviet Jews currently emigrate...
City and school authorities reacted last week with stiff security measures: ID cards for students, metal detectors at building entrances and classrooms equipped with silent alarms. But controversy flared over one provision: students who attack teachers will be expelled. Although the schools' dropout rate is about 37%, state law guarantees even thugs an education until they...