Word: frans
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...always prepared for any eventuality, (“I wouldn’t clear my throat without a backup plan,” he says). But he is getting old and would like to retire and live a calm, peaceful life with his beautiful wife and accomplice, Fran (Rebecca Pidgeon). This becomes an even better plan after he is forced to show his face on a security camera in order to complete a robbery without resorting to violence. But matters become complicated when his fence, Bergman (Danny DeVito), strong-arms him into taking a risky last job that involves...
...greatest craftsmen the world has known, would shudder if he were to read what follows. It concerns a cello he made three centuries ago, in 1701, that today some musicians consider the best in the world. It is named after one of its various owners, Adrien-François Servais, and for the past 20 years has been kept in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington. Occasionally a musician of renown is allowed to play the Servais: in 1992 Dutchman Anner Bylsma made a beautiful recording of Bach's six solo suites, which were composed...
...Levangs then began to hear alarming stories from other residents' families. Tina Sowells' grandmother Freda Trimble, then 89, had to be hospitalized after an anxiety attack because for several days she hadn't been given her necessary dose of Xanax. Fran Firth complained that her mother, Grace, then 74, had been left lying in her feces for several hours until her skin peeled; the company says her diaper was changed regularly. "We could not have been more disappointed," says Bonnie Levang...
...everyone, of course, is in favor of Head Start. In an effort to delineate the debate between program supporters and detractors, TIME.com spoke with representatives of organizations with very different viewpoints. First, Professor Fran Stott, the Vice President and Dean of Academic Programs at the Erikson Institute, a graduate school in childhood development that was founded in 1966 to educate Head Start teachers. On the other side of the issue is Krista Kafer, an Education Policy analyst at the Heritage Foundation in Washington D.C., a non-profit research institute that has historically taken a very skeptical view of Head Start...
...Fran Stott: I totally endorse the major purpose of her message. I also believe that all evidence indicates that yes, universal pre-school is a very good idea. I think it also a very good idea because it is the best way to address the achievement gap between advantaged and disadvantaged children. It?s also important to note that according to research, while early childhood education makes a major difference in children?s later successes, there are other aspects of early learning - like emotional and social development - that can also be addressed by well-rounded, quality pre-school programs...