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DIED. MARGE SCHOTT, 75, philanthropist and controversial owner of the Cincinnati Reds; in Cincinnati. Under Schott, a lumber magnate's daughter who gave her St. Bernard dogs the run of the ballpark, the Reds won the 1990 baseball World Series. But Schott was twice suspended from running the franchise after...
FRENCH: The lazybones with cravings for the richness of French cuisine are in luck: French professors enthusiastically recommend Sandrine’s, the local bistro on Holyoke St. C. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France and Professor of Comparative Literature Susan R. Suleiman rave about the saurkraut sausages...
In the very latest instance of French praise for America—Alexis de Tocqueville’s 1835 masterpiece Democracy in America—the author notes the remarkable “equality of conditions” in the United States and connects America’s socioeconomic equality...
Teachers, meanwhile, added three to four hours to their workweeks, including two additional hours of training. The curriculum was standardized and shaped around the testing schedule. "We were amazed when we aligned our math curriculum--amazed at the things we weren't teaching prior to the test," says Jan Collinson...
DIED. JAN MINER, 86, stage and film actress best known for her role as Madge, the manicurist in Palmolive commercials from 1966 to 1992; in Bethel, Conn. In the ads the wisecracking Madge would praise the gentleness of the dish detergent to a customer, who would invariably react in shock...