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...guess I seem friendly or something," he said. "I think I am a definite weird magnet...
...architects of Cleveland's program counter that city parents are in no way encouraged to send their kids to religious schools. Parents can choose public magnet or charter schools, which are free and get far more funding per pupil than voucher schools. For this reason, says Clint Bolick, lead lawyer for a group of parents defending the program, "there's actually a disincentive to choose the voucher schools." Bolick argues that if you include magnet and charter schools in the equation, only 16.5% of parents who exercise educational choice send their kids to religious schools...
...extended humdrums of 2 to 3 percent growth. Even if the tech sector can bottom out soon and adjust its expectations accordingly, there'll be no 43 percent runup in 2001, and no gold rush to go with it. And with no "wealth effect" for consumers and no market magnet for international investment, America's imperviousness to global slowdowns should be greatly reduced...
...hard years make up only a small portion of a story filled with enchanting details. There is the Long Island, N.Y., mansion he and his three brothers lived in while their father was still rich and famous, a magnet for such visitors as Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald ("I have never seen a photograph that conveyed the beauty I saw in her"). There are glittering Hollywood anecdotes featuring everyone from David O. Selznick to Robert Altman, and behind-the-scenes stories about Lardner's two screenwriting Oscars, for Woman of the Year and M*A*S*H. The only sad thing...
...Throughout the convention, as in the online forums, one gets the sense of lore carefully being passed along. The instrument's pioneers, after all, are still with us for the most part, but judging from the convention it doesn't appear to be a magnet for youth: At 45, I'm in the younger half of my 10-man seminar, and I see maybe two people all weekend who are clearly under 30. Perhaps I'm not the only one who got put off by it the first time around...