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...neighborhoods that rely on government funds, and those in middle-class communities that can tap off-the-books parental money. Even some parent advocates got uneasy over the New York parents' brazenness. "The running of public schools should be the responsibility of the public through tax monies," said Lois Jean White, president of the national PTA. Other critics weren't so diplomatic. "It's not an 'extra' when you're talking about subsidizing salary for a teacher," says Jonathan Kozol, author of the 1991 book Savage Inequalities. "The moral justification of public education is being ripped apart...
Here was a remarkable woman who, in her life with the poor, lived by a completely different set of rules. Your article said Mother Teresa's order accepted donations from "some unsavory individuals" such as Haiti's Jean-Claude Duvalier. I believe Mother Teresa accepted them because of the genuine good that would result from helping the poor. Human judgments must bow to divine judgment, and Mother Teresa more than anyone else understood the need to adopt that view. Whatever faults she might have had pale in comparison to the very true criticism Mother Teresa leveled...
...understand the import of filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, one should simply read the first three letters of his last name. And this fall, the Brattle Theatre may be the place for reverence with its Forever Godard retrospective...
Several times, Bowie played saxophone, and at one point he threw a pair of enormous balloons designed to look like eyeballs into the crowd. A cover of an old Chicago blues standard, "Baby What You Want Me To Do," segued seamlessly into Bowie's own "Jean Genie." Stone-faced, kilt-wearing guitarist Reeves Gabrels provided perhaps the biggest laughs of the night when, in the middle of a particularly incendiary version of the faux-disco rocker "Stay," he reached over to the nearby Bowie and casually licked his ear. The elegant, artistic stage design also proved interesting...
...Jean-Paul Tremblay...