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When Head Start was founded in 1965, it was hailed as a revolutionary way to help America?s poorest children prepare for school. The idea, advocates said, was to create that proverbial level playing field. Today, the president of the country?s second-largest teachers? union announced a new path to that mythical leveled field, declaring that all children - middle class, working class and poor - should be eligible to attend quality pre-school programs like Head Start...
...along with others - so many foundations for later education. Money can buy so many of the experiences kids need to succeed in school - summer camp, music lessons, computers in the home - all things advantaged kids have almost automatically. It?s all part of a larger structure and path to success. These are things disadvantaged kids simply don?t have and I believe universal preschool is a way of helping them get those things...
...exhibition closes with a focus on one of Hitchcock's last films, The Birds. The horizontal flight path of one of the birds in Georges Braque's Blackbirds is mirrored in the angle that Philippe Halsman, a still photographer on the film's set, uses in the photo of a bird flying past co-star Tippi Hedren. Despite the apparent tranquility of René Magritte's The Deep Waters, the proportionally larger-than-life bird resting next to a clothed statue of a woman is as menacing as the crow perched on Hedren's arm in another Halsman photo...
Stars do it. Sports do it. Judges in the highest courts do it. Let's do it: that yoga thing. A path to enlightenment that winds back 5,000 years in its native India, yoga has suddenly become so hot, so cool, so very this minute. It's the exercise cum meditation for the new millennium, one that doesn't so much pump you up as bliss you out. In the U.S., yoga now straddles the continent?from Hollywood, where $20 million-a-picture actors queue for a session with their guru du jour, to Washington, where...
...typical of their time and place. Like other Americans, they catch their religion, their health regime, their holistic exercise, their personal fulfillment--whatever Falun Gong may be--on the run. And Falun Gong is typical of modern America in another way: as soon as a new path to self-fulfillment opens up, it is crowded with a rainbow assortment of followers. In inner-city Washington, popular sessions with new practitioners are held each week in a house that stands in the shadow of the I-395 expressway. Out in genteel Manassas, Va., famed for its Civil War battlefield and white...