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...takes a lot to catch a busy student's eye, and campus posters are a remarkable testament to the fickle passions of the student spirit. Some posters, usually ads for sketchy shared apartments ("Seeking female roommate who loves rottweilers"), psychological experiments ("Are you manic-depressive?") or surveys at the Dental School ("Free Root Canal!") tend to stay up for decades. Others have half-lives around 40 minutes, like advertisements for the endless stream of speeches given by political has-beens, or the even more endless stream of a cappella jams with names that never get old--including "Jambidextrous," "Jambivalent," "Jamnesia...
...tested--reading, math, social studies and "total battery"--voucher students did no better than their public school counterparts. In fact, the only students who really stood out--for their weak performance--were those in the city's two Hope academies. The test scores of these students, who are the poster children for vouchers in Cleveland, were not just lower, according to the study, but "significantly and substantially lower" than those of public school students and of voucher students in other private schools...
...note on the desk said she'd be back in 15 minutes. After about an hour, when I had determined that only three out of the "500 Reasons Why I'm Obsessive Compulsive" applied to me, I found myself studying the "Ziggy" ("Look Out World, Here I Come!") poster above her bed and abandoned the idea of meeting my host before dinner...
...hedonist? Do you enjoy hedonistic-type things? The International Poster Gallery presents "Sweet Temptations," an exhibit of poster advertisements for chocolate, alcohol, drugs and the like. All posters also on sale. Through Friday. International Poster Gallery, 205 Newbury St., Boston. 375-0076. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. FREE...
...desk said she'd be back in 15 minutes. After about an hour, when l had determined that only three out of the "500 Reasons Why I’m Obsessive Compulsive" applied to me, l found myself studying the "Ziggy" ("Look Out World, Here l Come!") poster above her bed and abandoned the idea of meeting my host before dinner...