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...system produces lustrous mini-campuses in the most fortunate suburbs, scuffed and gloomy warehouses in the ghettos and maximum insecurity almost everywhere. Poorer districts are so desperate that 41 states have faced lawsuits challenging the statewide school finance formula, all with the goal of getting courts to compel legislatures to adopt a more equitable sharing of tax revenues. Under court pressure, Kentucky has developed a package of taxes to help fund education. In May Texas voters will be asked to approve a redistribution of property taxes...
Bartoli is right that no amount of coaching can create a voice like hers; one must be born with the raw material. But she was born with more than that. Her dark good looks project grandly across the footlights: a mane of lustrous hair, huge brown eyes, a generous mouth and milky shoulders that enhance a decolletage. She also has temperamental stability and a ready sense of humor. Says conductor James Levine, artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera: "She has extraordinary self-perception, without the narcissism and the rest of the baloney." She will need her level-headedness...
WITH HIS PHOTO-OP JAW, LUSTROUS CREST OF HAIR and baritone voice, Sol Wachtler could have played a judge on television if he had not actually been one. As chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, Wachtler headed one of the nation's most influential state courts. State Republican leaders wanted him to challenge Mario Cuomo if the New York Governor chose to run again in 1994. But nobody is talking much about Wachtler's political future any longer. It's hard to envision the campaign trail of a man under house arrest...
...director Atom Egoyan in his handsome, quirky comedy THE ADJUSTER. Noah Render (Elias Koteas) is one such user, an insurance claims adjuster whose sensitivity to his clients' suffering extends to having sex with nearly all of them, from frowsy couples to purring studs to a burnt-out stunner (the lustrous Jennifer Dale). It makes life tough for Noah's wife (Arsinee Khanjian), a film censor. Both have jobs appraising erotic desires and pathetic dreams; both have a ruthless talent for "sorting things out, deciding what has value and what doesn't." The Adjuster has value: it finds wit and melancholy...
...SEVERAL QUEENS of the legendary Egyptian Pharaoh Ramses II (1290-1223 B.C.), none outshone Nefertari. She was Ramses' favorite wife, and by all accounts his loveliest. For her death, Ramses commissioned a subterranean tomb in the Valley of the Queens near Thebes, where she was portrayed in lustrous wall paintings by the leading artists of the kingdom...