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...Fonda as his wife and Jon Voight as a crippled vet, everyone is too damn earnest. The depth of the emotional struggles in the movie makes Ordinary People look like a model of complexity. And when Dern bares his buns for that catharsis/baptism, you want to vomit. Any ninth-grader could have written that...
...Cambridge, Mass., Harrington Elementary School, the gooey classrooms are broken down into "learning centers." In one, a first-grader fits pieces of an alphabet puzzle together. Near by, two girls dressed up in oversized high-heel shoes set a dinner table. A small group, with a teaching assistant acting as secretary, dictates words that will eventually make a whole story. Says Teacher Louise Grant: "Children need opportunities to express their own thoughts. The learning process is easier because there is an interest...
Attles explains that "a third grader in one school might read at merely a third grade level, but in other schools the average third-grader is at a fifth or sixth grade level." Such a difference in reading scores indicates where resources that the school system has should be channelled, Attles believes...
...purchases of construction equipment and materials by the commissioners. Some payoffs were straightforward "commissions" of 10%. Others were bills, either outrageously padded or for nonexistent equipment. One 28-year-old rock-crushing machine worth $5,000, for instance, was bought for $42,500, and a $14,000 used road grader was leased for one year...
...purvey lookalikes, the product yields a lot of money with little legal risk. Says Lieut. Robert Long of the Massachusetts state police narcotics unit: "A dealer can buy about 1,000 look-alike pills for $45 per jar, or approximately 4? each. Then he goes out to some eighth-grader and sells those same pills for $2 apiece. Right off the bat he's making a profit of more than...