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More inspirational crusade than a program of substance ("I am a preacher, not an educator," Jackson readily admits), PUSH-EXCEL exemplifies Jackson's belief that black students cannot just blame poor schools if they do not learn...
...certain qualities that would make him a good candidate," says James Compton, president of the Chicago Urban League, "but my own preference would be for a professional politician." Jackson also has a reputation as a sloppy money manager. Last month an unflattering interim federal audit of PUSH-EXCEL, a motivational program for high school students, surfaced in Chicago, raising questions about the program's use of $1.7 million in federal funds...
Says Toyama, who also runs one of Tokyo's most active concert halls: "Our musicians excel technically, but I don't know if Japan has yet produced any master artists. When you play Western music, what is most important is interpretation. We have mastered the technique. Now we have to go on." So far, few Japanese musicians have achieved international prominence; the best known is Conductor Seiji Ozawa, music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. At home he leads the New Japan Philharmonic, but his career has been largely Western...
...made me think of the past. I grew up in the '30s, when Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and other Bauhaus architects were beginning to influence American architecture. During the building boom that followed World War II, I looked forward to seeing homes and office buildings that would excel the architecture of previous eras. I was disappointed. Few American buildings in the past 40 years have equaled the beauty of Monticello, the White House, the Chrysler Building, or even the average American home built prior to the war. Perhaps next year's Aspen conference on design should look...
...Once you go outside Ivy competition and you excel, there's danger that as an athlete of national caliber you may give the impression that Harvard is compromising the academic standards for its athletes," he adds. Phills cites Harvard's refusal to allow wrestlers a chance to work out in the gym during the off-season as an example of the university's attempt "to discourage athletic professionalism...