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...cavernous Pantheon. Which would be fine, had the Romans built with concrete, but they knew better. Washington's Metro is the Mather House of subways--simultaneously large, impressive, cold and ugly. All the same, it has redeeming features--like the Sonny Rollins look- and sound-alike who plays atop Farragut North or the longest escalator outside of Russia at Wheaton. But these amenities do little to compensate for its reigning hobgoblin, a gray-grim consistency...
...Kevin Garnett, 20. Who needs college? Drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves straight out of high school--Farragut Academy in Chicago--the 6-ft. 11-in. power forward averaged 14 points and 8 rebounds in his 43 postapprenticeship-on-the-bench starts. He also made it a little easier for Kobe Bryant and Jermaine O'Neal to make the jump from high school to the N.B.A. this year. Somewhere along the line, Garnett acquired a taste for literature. His favorite book, he says, is The Great Gatsby. As we said, who needs college...
...over the continuing capacity of this nation to astound itself with the production of staples. "It is just truly remarkable that farmers could bounce back from the floods and replenish the coffers like this," says Keith Collins, the USDA's chief economist. The exuberant poet-farmer Michael Carey of Farragut, Iowa, says it this...
...sounds a little bit like English but there are too many 'hochs,' " notes a junior at Chicago's Farragut Career Academy High School...
Reagan again argued that merit pay for teachers and a return to basics would do more to remedy the "mediocrity" in the schools than infusions of new federal money. On a visit to Farragut High School in a suburb of Knoxville, he listened approvingly as Tennessee Governor Lamar Alexander outlined his "master teacher" plan. It would offer salaries of up to $27,100 for top teachers, in contrast with a current high of about $17,800. "If we want to achieve excellence, we must reward it," Reagan said. "It is the American way." While the President was in Tennessee...