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...FS: Not the same exact one. It gets tattered up. I need to replace it soon...
...generation.' Straus shuns the bureaucratic style of those merged entities resulting from takeovers by huge conglomerates that demand a fast return on their investment. He works in close contact with his employees. When the air conditioning broke down, he dashed out to buy Good Humors for the entire staff ... FS&G's authors seem glad to forgo the ritual overpriced lunch (Straus takes writers to modest neighborhood restaurants) for the opportunity to work closely with underpaid four-star editors. [Scott] Turow, who turned down a proffered $275,000 advance elsewhere to take $200,000 at FS&G, says the house...
Last week Utah announced it was removing some of the more difficult questions from its statewide exams. Ohio recently "refined" its criteria for calculating low-performing schools; afterward, the number receiving Fs fell from 760 to 200. Michigan, California and Nevada are weighing similar actions. Says California's state schools chief Delaine Eastin: "We're almost surely going to have to lower what we define as proficient." Experts warn that the incentive to dumb down standards will only grow as the stricter provisions of the new law take effect, a move that could brand more than 70% of schools...
...Tech had received Fs on the state's report card for four consecutive years. Three-quarters of the students who began as freshmen never made it to graduation. Fewer than 25% of sophomores passed the state's basic-skills exam in math. Failure had become routine, expected and excused. After all, three-fourths of Fox Tech students are poor enough to receive subsidized lunches. More than half the students work at night to help support their families. Nearly 100 have their own children to support...
...Queen of the Night’s big first act aria was a bit too fast for soprano Mary Dunleavy, resulting in an awkward adjustment as her coloratura fireworks begin. Nor was Dunleavy vocally perfect. In her Act II showstopper she seemed so obsessed with hitting those high Fs that the other notes of her arpeggios were just a bit sharp. Yet she nevertheless awed the audience and enchanted Tamino. The literal pyrotechnic flashes that accompany her appearance, and her equally pyrotechnic vocal part, were sufficiently sensational to seduce us. So while the music wasn’t quite perfect...