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Dumping millions more of American tax dollars into the entrenched, bureaucratic money-pit that is the failing American public school would be to reward the very system that has failed us. In Chicago, 46 percent of the children of public school teachers and administrators attend private schools. The people who know the public school system best have no faith in its merit...
Economically, there isn't enough time for even a five-year deficit-reduction plan if the periods before, during and after recessions are ruled out. There was about seven years from the pit of the last recession to the beginning of the current one. And that, as Reaganites love to tell you, was an extraordinarily long period of growth. Perhaps you believe -- as the supply- side conservatives did during the 1980s and Keynesian liberals did for decades before -- that the business cycle has been abolished. If not, the calendar is against you: we cannot wait until full recovery from...
Boston has plenty of bands with this vision, but Buffalo Tom, who appeared last week at Avalon, is among the best. With simple, irrestible rhythms and vocals pleading raspily for lost love, the band's universal sound drew together traditional city rivals into the mosh pit--frat boys bent on dancing to anything with a hard beat, and the flannel-and-nose-ring crowd, fiercely attentive to every inflection in singer Bill Janovitz's songs...
...bands' sounds aren't too far apart, but with a few more years under their belt, Buffalo Tom may develop the sound in their own right. They have, at least, spread beyond college-rock listeners and have started to attract anyone, even violent, drunken old men, to the mosh pit...
...CREEPING IN ON LITTLE CAT FEET FOR THE MUSIC OF ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER. This touring concert stomps into Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall for a two-week visit with a 52-piece orchestra, twice the size of the usual Broadway pit band. Early on, overamplification and pretension threaten to do in the evening. Ultimately, though, Sir Andrew's lush, melodic theater music seduces. From Jesus Christ Superstar to The Phantom of the Opera, all the hits are here. A virtuoso company of 14 makes even the most familiar songs seem fresh (Laurie Beechman's poignant Memory is a knockout...