Word: parkes
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...lessons of Bowling Park, where the student body is overwhelmingly black and low income, are not just for schools that serve the poor. In fact, Zigler's concept of expanding school into a full-day, year-round enterprise is equally crucial to middle-class parents at Sycamore Hills Elementary School in Independence, Missouri, where students are mostly white...
...high school students, she has a special interest in education; in recent months she has reported on the charter school movement and the controversy over bilingual curriculums. In this week's issue she writes about a new full-service approach to public schooling called CoZi. Visiting Bowling Park and Sycamore Hills, two schools profiled in her story, Hornblower was struck by their can-do spirit. "No one was talking about grades," she says, "only about helping children any way they could...
...surprise that Martin Cruz Smith, author of the Soviet-era Russian cop novel Gorky Park, has written the most interesting and richly textured crime story of the season. What is unexpected about Rose (Random House; 364 pages; $25) is its setting: not the disorder of present-day Russia but the rigidly stratified society of a Welsh coal-mining town toward the end of the 19th century. As must be true in a period thriller, the setting drives the plot and makes the crime--in this case, the disappearance and presumed murder of a young and idealistic clergyman--seem inevitable...
Terrible crimes against humanity have been committed in the heart of Europe. There are villains and victims. We need justice to have peace. If Western leaders had had political courage and willpower four years ago, bloodshed could have been stopped then. DRAGAN IVKOVIC Melrose Park, Illinois...
While it is fine to wax nostalgic about three remaining great old ball yards [SPORT, May 13], including my beloved Fenway Park, and bemoan their inevitable loss, critics should talk with the fans who actually populate those stadiums on game days. As beautiful and charming as Fenway is, its seats are cramped, concessions inadequate and rest rooms too few. The entire place is antiquated. The tradition of the Boston Celtics, along with the team's parquet floor, made the trip from the old Boston Garden--now there is a dump--to the new Fleet Center quite nicely. Fenway's Green...