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Every week when the arts section arrives with the local paper, I am always tickled by the list of musical groups scheduled to perform in Connecticut. Perhaps a recent listing that promised shows this summer by three groups--named Leaf Jumpers, Two Ton Shoe and Gargantua Soul--shows...
...While President Clinton has proposed making the "13th and 14th years of education as universal as high school" in America, Japanese students are fighting their way to a college education--enrolling in "crammer colleges" if necessary to help them stay ahead of the academic pack. Those who do not perform up to par are destined to loiter in Fukuoka's famed street for delinquents, translated to me as "Failures's Avenue" or "Parents' Unhappiness...
...attend American colleges, I am learning to develop more structured lesson plans; my students look at me blankly when I ask them if they'd prefer to review analogies or sentence completions at the beginning of the session. I'm not about to start "shaming" my students who perform poorly on a practice test, but I am beginning to understand why the student gets absolutely frustrated with himself (no girls being taught here--male chauvinism in Japan is a whole other postcard waiting to be written) when his answer should have been "their," not "there...
...national security of Pakistan and its need to perform nuclear tests outweighed American incentives not to carry them out. The U.S. should put itself in Pakistan's shoes and ask what it would have done if Russia had set off tests as India did. I am sure America would have reacted the same way that Pakistan did. MOHAMMAD FAHIM Karachi...
...this country, but in the '60s, the embargo hit, and Cuban musicians were barred, for the most part, from playing in the U.S. The music, in America, slipped from a place of prominence. But in 1988 Congress passed an amendment to the embargo that allowed Cuban musicians to perform Stateside if they came as part of a cultural exchange, a requirement typically fulfilled by the artist's giving an educational workshop in addition to his or her regular...