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There is no shortage of ideas for improving No Child Left Behind. Senator Edward Kennedy, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and Congressman George Miller, Kennedy's counterpart in the House, are sorting through a mind-numbing number of proposals to address AYP's shortcomings, lackluster state standards, curriculum narrowing and remedies for failing schools as well as issues concerning the law's requirement for a "qualified teacher" in every classroom and other concerns...
...brain. "You could only do that with a Baz," says Meron, meaning Australian director Baz Luhrman. "It's all about his expression as an artist." Burton, an equally idiosyncratic artistic mind, is at work on this year's Sweeney Todd. Some of us are very eager to see what Edward Scissorhands does to meat pies...
...Congratulations! You managed to achieve the virtually impossible. You miraculously failed to mention Dennis Hopper-the consummate film personification of evil. Have Corliss and colleagues never seen Hopper's character portrayals in Blue Velvet, Paris Trout and Speed? Edward J. Spires, Rochester, New York...
...year Jackie Robinson debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers, a less celebrated event occurred: Pepsi hired adman Edward Boyd to promote the cola among blacks. With sleek images of happy, middle-class black consumers and endorsements from stars like Duke Ellington, Boyd pioneered niche marketing and boosted sales wherever his campaign ran--notably Chicago, where Pepsi overtook Coke for the first time...
...Edward Hopper is one of those painters who are always there on the edge of your awareness. His famous canvases are constantly being reproduced. But when you come up against the real things, you discover that his work is even stranger and more haunted--more impregnable--than you remembered. That's the lesson of the mesmerizing Hopper show that has opened at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, where it remains until Aug. 19 before traveling to Washington and Chicago. That's also the Hopper paradox. He's the easy-to-read artist who's always just beyond our grasp...