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...house and stayed for four hours. They asked questions about her health, children, previous marriages (Feinstein and one husband had divorced; a second had died) and finances. "They messed up my Sunday," Blum complained with mock seriousness. "They wanted to know everything all the way back to kindergarten." On Monday the aides spent 14 hours at Blum's downtown office, scouring financial records. Blum ordered sandwiches sent in so reporters would not spot the Mondale...
...chuckling over the best answer to give any student who asked a question one couldn't answer; the best answer, according to one of them, was "We don't know that yet." The "we," of course, were the collective Masters of Knowledge; it didn't include the students. From kindergarten on, we've absorbed the idea that the educational process is a hierarchy, and when it's our turn to move toward the top, some of us unthinkingly begin to reproduce that hierarchy...
Education issues really fall into two camps--the primary and secondary school questions and the collegiate questions--both of which are markedly different Debate on the kindergarten to high school years has focused on a range of topics--from teacher training and core curriculi to computer literacy, math and science competency, and tuition tax credits for parents of private school children...
...Titled Kindergarten, it recounts his child hood experiences during World War II, when he and thousands of other Moscow residents were evacuated to Siberia to escape advancing German troops. Although film portrayals of the U.S.S.R.'s World War II ordeal are encouraged by Soviet authorities, Yevtushenko's movie may run into difficulties nonetheless. One of two nude scenes, in which a newlywed wife is shown naked to the waist, drew gasps from the audience. Nudity is rare in Soviet films, usually being restricted by the censors. Kindergarten also includes a reverential portrayal of an aging rabbi that could...
...poet-film maker is prepared for trouble. "I feel some invisible enemy is working against my movie," says Yevtushenko, who at 50 still has the youthful exuberance that helped make him a literary pop star in the will keep my film from being seen around the country." Although Kindergarten was given preliminary approval for showing, a government agency must now decide whether it can be distributed throughout the Soviet Union and overseas. Yevtushenko insists he will make no cuts. "I won't change anything now," he says. "I will not give in to censorship. If you give one finger...