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...assign homework, students to study two hours a night, and parents to provide support. Follow-up programs are sometimes weak and the long-range effectiveness remains to be seen, but some PUSH-EXCEL programs have produced lower absentee rates and higher morale. Says Jackson: "Affirmative action is a moot question if you don't learn to read and write." And at graduation, he wants voter registration cards handed out with diplomas...
...TIME GOES ON, the questions that everyone asked as jokes a decade ago are becoming less and less moot. What will Paul McCartney be doing at 50? Touring the Catskills with Wings, maybe making guest appearances at Grossinger's. How will the generation of rockers that entered the field in the mid-sixties meet the twentieth anniversary of their debuts? Nature has solved the problem for many of them in a swift and clean way, of course, but for those who remain alive, existential crises are on the way. If these albums any indication, it will be a long, painfully...
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...question of whether or not Kennedy's popularity is high in Cambridge is moot," City Councilor Saundra Graham said yesterday. Graham cast the one dissenting vote on the motion to put the question of Kennedy's candidacy on the ballot. "Kennedy should decide for himself if he is going to run, not me or anyone else," she said. "We should not try to draft someone for the presidency...
...higher court upholds the earlier ruling, I would consider it a moot point and say any more challenges would be futile," Sullivan said...