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...another's glow. Sound like fun? This year a mob of 1,200 pols and aspiring Friends of Bill are clamoring for invitations to the exclusive camp, where 100 favored families will take part in seminars that last year ranged from "Our Fragile Planet" to "Building an Inner Life...
This is a school with little going for it: no special government programs, no foundation grants, no major benefactors. It is not a magnet school, not a school for gifted children, not special in any way -- except for the extraordinary things that go on inside. America's abject inner-city schools may yet be rescued by a new commitment from Washington or by the bold reform movement gathering strength in the think tanks and universities. But in every city there are schools like this one that are not waiting to be saved, which offer a case study...
...general, paths in the inner courtyards werecleared of snow as of yesterday afternoon. Butconnecting streets, like parts of DeWolfe Streetbehind Quincy or the walkway in front of Lowell,remained unploughed...
...mystery guest was David Osborne, 41, a public policy consultant and author who shares Clinton's passion for such nuts-and-bolts issues as bank lending to inner-city residents and privatized pothole repair. The two met in 1985, when Osborne interviewed Clinton for his first book, Laboratories of Democracy, which was published in 1988 and included an admiring chapter on Clinton's education reforms in Arkansas. Since then, Clinton has promoted Osborne's writings to fellow Governors. Osborne's ideas have been praised -- and implemented -- by politicians ranging from Republican Governor William Weld of Massachusetts to Democratic Governor Lawton...
...garbage, as if Western practice is the standard by which everything must now be judged. As cultural historian James Billington notes in his book The Icon and the Axe, "Repeatedly, Russians have sought to acquire the end products of other civilizations without the intervening process of slow growth and inner understanding...