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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Time is running out. The annual concert is tomorrow, and Roberta Guaspari-Tzavaras is whipping herself and her second- and third-grade violinists through a frenzied rehearsal. "When I bow, you bow!" she barks. "I don't want to tell you to watch...
...tiny instruments were a settlement of sorts--bought for $5,000 to teach kids in Greece, where she was stationed as a military wife, and kept when her marriage ended and she returned to the U.S. The daughter of a factory worker, she had taken up violin in fourth grade at her public school. "It should be an inalienable right for every child to have music education," she insists. To remedy what Jefferson overlooked, she moved to East 118th Street and brought the sound of strings to three public schools...
Adiza Sanchez-Rahim, 12, knew nothing about violin when Roberta visited her first-grade class six years ago. Adiza is at an awkward age, but when she picks up the violin, she assumes a defiant grace. After all, she has taken lessons at Juilliard, performed in Switzerland and played for Oprah Winfrey. Says Adiza: "I'd be totally different without violin...
RANDY OWENS Independent, Virginia Resume: Cook, plumber, retail sales, community-center recreational aide Relevant experience: Admits he's "not exactly overloaded"; elected president of second-grade class; lifetime of trying to beat the system Platform: "It is time for the common people to take back control of the country...
...known him since I was in grade school. He taught me pinochle. And when I was in my 20s and he in his 70s, he took my calls when I had doubts about my work or questions about the business of books. Last time I saw him, he showed me a chart on which he had outlined his book Omerta. He joked that I could use it when he was done...