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...unceremonious dumping fuels suspicion that the White House is worried that voters will punish the President in 1992 unless he delivers on his promises. "This is a new start to Bush's efforts to become the education President," says Chester Finn Jr., a Reagan-era Assistant Secretary of Education. "The department is waiting for real leadership...
...explain why the big-city superintendent's job is one of the purest forms of crisis management this side of the Oval Office, and one of the most discouraging. "Within the ground rules of the system, it's just about impossible to succeed today at that job," concludes Chester Finn, director of the Educational Excellence Network, which tracks educational issues...
FALSETTOLAND Music and Lyrics by William Finn; Book by William Finn and James Lapine...
...fulcrum of the ensemble is the child of the broken marriage, on the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, played with just the right blend of anxiety and healing gumption by Danny Gerard, 13. Each actor gets at least one beautiful, revealing song, and all of them make William Finn's music haunting. This individual excellence adds up to general excellence: for craft and for heart, Falsettoland is the first great musical of the '90s, and will probably loom just as large when the decade is over. It is a burst of genius...
FALSETTOLAND. The third installment of William Finn's musical trilogy, off- Broadway, explores the intricacies of love and family in the age of AIDS, without losing its sense of humor...