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Twelve tutors from Pforzheimer volunteer at the M.E. Fitzgerald Elementary School's After-School Learning Center...
...Halloween, Pforzheimer HAND staged a costume party and a trick-or-treat tour through the house. About 35 children, 20 from the Fitzgerald After-School Program, were dressed in costume by one-shot volunteers and taken trick-or-treating around the house...
Despite protestations about its heroes' greatness, Lewis & Clark may actually not do them justice. At the end of The Great Gatsby (to switch writers for a moment), F. Scott Fitzgerald famously wrote of the Dutch sailors who encountered the "fresh green breast of the new world." What those sailors were to Europeans, Lewis and Clark were to Americans. They explored the extreme, forbidding, literally awe-inspiring territories that for Americans were the New World and that are still thought of as emblematic of America. This was no nurturing green breast, however; it was the broad, muscled back of the country...
...Scott Fitzgerald's oft-quoted remark that there are no second acts in American lives is a canard. Especially in American lives, there are second acts, encores, curtain calls, sequels and comebacks. In this case the first act was Marky Mark, rapper. The second is Mark Wahlberg, actor, perhaps even artiste. "I'm not shooting for the stars," Wahlberg says. "I'm just kind of doing things that I feel I can do good. I think I outgrew the Marky Mark thing, y' know?" Could be. Based on the way his second act is going, it will...
Worse, still, than losing a lover is losing a muse. Gently, lovingly, at other times with parasitic intention or vampiric intensity, men have turned to women for inspiration. F. Scott Fitzgerald had Zelda, Rodin had Camille Claudel, Picasso had a distaff palette; and Bob Dylan, one of the most intriguing, important, irascible figures in rock, had whom? On Time Out of Mind, his first CD of new, self-penned material in seven years and his most consistently rewarding album since the '70s, Dylan seems to be haunted by an imaginary, unnamed muse who has come and gone, leaving him loveless...