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HAPPY TO BE HERE by Garrison Keillor...
...remember the material already covered. Saxon presents the material in small linked units, without the traditional division into chapters. Saxon treats the problem of retention by the obvious and old-fashioned device of a large number of daily cumulative review questions, examples and problems. One result, says Lionel Garrison, head of the math department at Dwight Englewood School in New Jersey, is that the book reinforces the "point that math is a reasonable approach to reasonable problems...
...drama is poorly developed, really just one episode after another. But the director drives home one crucial point: short of wholesale slaughter, there seems no way of stopping a popular revolution in a small country. The few National Guardsmen who must "control" Leon, in reality control only the garrison in the center of the city, and the radius of automatic fire around their heavily armed vehicles. Sooner or later, by defection or defeat, the soldiery will fall, though the lengths Somoza went to--including the aerial bombing of Nicaragua's cities--are terrifying. Especially worth American notice is the deadly...
...town that time forgot and that decades cannot improve," Lake Wobegon was founded only seven years ago by Garrison Keillor, a Minnesota writer and disc jockey. When he was a boy, Keillor, 39, loved the Grand Ole Opry. Now he frets that the Opry has become too much like a big industry and he believes that, despite TV, there is still an audience for a radio variety show, which is what the Opry and dozens of other shows of the '30s and '40s used to be. The producers of Minnesota Public Radio agreed. A Prairie Home Companion...
...fact that the struggle will be much tougher than previously imagined was brutally underlined last month. For the first time, units of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front captured a small Salvadoran National Guard garrison, that of the isolated northeastern town of Perquin (pop. 3,700). The guerrillas held the town for seven days; all the while their clandestine radio station, Radio Venceremos, spread news of the feat across the country. The insurgents finally retreated after the Salvadoran army moved reinforcements into the area and bombed the town. According to guerrilla accounts, their casualties were light-only one killed-while...