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...long as Central America is unstable, the Nicaraguans will continue to latch on to the Soviet Union. The war the United States is about to fund will destablize that region, thereby increasing the threat to our borders. But even more distressing is the fact that the decision to send money to the contras will also fuel the rhetorical fire of leftists trying to sway the peoples of other Central American nations...
Keylatch is named for the label applied tochildren whose parents both work, leaving them towear their house keys around their necks and spendseveral hours alone each day. They are called"latch key kids." The $12,000 program that Cruzhas directed for the past two years operatesduring the school year and summers in VillaVictoria, a Puerto Rican housing development inthe South...
Fourteen year-old Jorge Palmerin, one of Cruz'stutees in the Key Latch program says, "Remy hastaught me many things. He has brought me closertogether with other boys my age. He taught us howimportant school is, how the future would dependon us, and we learned about other places and whatother places...
Though the lock still hangs on the Plympton St. gate to the garden, giving the illusion that it is locked, students may lift the latch and walk...
...system as an index of virtue in art. But because the system was full of quirks, and especially because it depicted something--landscape, which is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel--other viewers, tired of the dry oats of conceptual art, could gratefully latch on to Bartlett. If Rhapsody today seems a mite too garrulous and fiddly to be the masterpiece many critics take it for, it remains an essential key to the shift of taste that took New York art into the '80s. In a catalog essay to this show, Art Critic Roberta...