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Children and guns are not a perfect match [SPECIAL REPORT, May 3], so why do they keep showing up together? It just does not make sense to me. I used to love going to my school, a magnet public school. However, now I am afraid to go to school, for I know that things like the shooting of students can happen anytime, anywhere. RACHEL MORGAN, 13 West Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 24, 1999 | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

Whether Chernomyrdin, Yeltsin or anyone else in the Russian government could refocus was the question now confronting Washington. For five weeks Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has pinned her peace hopes on what she called a "double-magnet" strategy: pulling Russia toward NATO's demands so that it, in turn, would tug Belgrade. But Administration aides were worried that in the current chaos, nobody under Yeltsin "would be left to cut the deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia's Distracted Peacemaker | 5/24/1999 | See Source »

Mary Jo Salter's poems at first seem to be simple description. She paints objects for us: the French countryside, a child's handmade magnet, a rainbow, a movie. Pretty collections of words, aesthetically pleasing. You seem to just slip over them, letting the images slide in and out of the brain, remaining only that, images...

Author: By Lauren M. Hult, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hello? It's Elemenary, My Dear | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

Mary Jo Salter's poems at first seem to be simple description. She paints objects for us: the French countryside, a child's handmade magnet, a rainbow, a movie. Pretty collections of words, aesthetically pleasing. You seem to just slip over them, letting the images slide in and out of the brain, remaining only that, images...

Author: By Lauren M. Hult, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hello? It's Elementary, My Dear | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...more controversial methods of school reform, too, such as school vouchers. Vouchers give parents a money grant, usually what the average spending-per-student is in that school district, so that the parents can send their child to a school of their choice, whether it be public, private, magnet or parochial. The idea was conceived by parents in inner cities who wanted their children to escape the poor performance of neighborhood schools. Vouchers have been implemented in Cleveland, Milwaukee and throughout Vermont and Maine. Future states may include Arizona and Minnesota...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, | Title: Giving Kids the Options They Need | 4/27/1999 | See Source »

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