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However, when the board's Reading Development Committee met in May, its chair, retired English teacher Joan Vinson of Dallas, argued against excluding those books. "These books are included in some of the best literature out there," Vinson said. "Also, if we're trying to align the SAT more with school curricula, that's something we can't do if we exclude these books." Other committee members heartily agreed that passages from William Faulkner and James Joyce--authors typically assigned only in the best schools--should also be considered for inclusion. Students who have already read these authors will have...
Fashion designers--responding, in part, to customer complaints about super low-riding jeans--are starting to offer pants that women without flat tummies can stomach. "For the first time in a while, fashion is more about pleasing a woman than a girl," says Joan Kaner, senior vice president and fashion director of Neiman Marcus. Next year Ralph Lauren plans to feature pleated natural-waistline pants, and Anne Klein will show high-waistline pants accented with wide leather-paneled belts. "There is a trend now of classic feminine dressing, and the high-waisted pant falls into that category," says Eileen McMaster...
...Guerin are different. In Ireland her murder--believed to have been ordered by drug thugs she had exposed--cued mourning of an intensity that rivaled Princess Diana's the following year. Guerin (rhymes with cheerin') has been the subject of two films, the fictionalized When the Sky Falls, with Joan Allen in the lead role, and now a smartly mounted and modulated biopic, Veronica Guerin, starring Cate Blanchett...
...just talk politics (or, as in the case of Harrison Ford, play them in the movies). As we have just seen, getting into the Governor's mansion may not be much harder than getting into an Academy Awards ceremony--and you don't even have to be nice to Joan Rivers. --By Harriet Barovick and Kate Novack...
...legendary 60s activist, Joan Baez performed at MLK’s 1963 March on Washington, participated in the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley and co-founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. She’s also a talented soprano, a versatile folk rock star, a six-time Grammy Award-nominee and a Woodstock performer. 8 p.m. $30.50-$38. Berklee Performance Center, 136 Mass. Ave., Boston...