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...Reverend William Wallace, rector of Emmanuel Church, believes that the power of Bach's cantatas is not limited to the religious. "Art has to be expressed with a genre; that's a given. Bach's genre is sacred music. You don't have to subscribe to Bach's beliefs to experience the art form." He also highlighted the fact that these cantatas were written for the liturgy, that it is "an incredible gift to be able to contain the soul of Bach's music within a service...
Noah I. Dauber's "Let Boarding Schools Bow Out Gracefully" (opinion, Nov. 16) gives a distorted, unfounded and altogether ignorant account of modern boarding schools. While he criticizes David Hicks (the former rector of the boarding school I attended, St Paul's) for demonizing the self-interests of teenagers, Dauber himself portrays all boarding school students as conceited, arrogant, "fleece-wearing friends" from suburbia. Furthermore, Dauber confuses Hicks' view of boarding schools with the general purpose of those schools, and thus concludes erroneously that boarding schools will, in the near future, "bow out gracefully" as schools become more liberal...
...latest issue of the American Scholar, David Hicks, the former rector of St. Paul's school, laments this sorry state of affairs. These schools have served our country by educating the privileged few, he argues, who by virtue of their wealth and social standing will wield a disproportionate amount of power in national affairs. These fortunate folk usually suffer from an excess of self-interest; Boarding schools strive to beat it out of them through strenuous athletics and a rigorously planned schedule. Or at least they used...
...even if they did, they would not necessarily answer the question Edelman's way because of the growing sense, embraced by both major presidential candidates, that government has its limitations. "Read between the lines of everything Marian Wright Edelman says, and what you get is this," says Robert Rector of the conservative Heritage Foundation. "The problem affecting kids is material poverty, so if we give the family more money for housing and food, things will turn out better for the kids. The reality is that despite 30 years of this effort, there is no evidence whatsoever that [this...
...Tokyo metropolitan government. Its construction was entirely financed by the government of Japan. Not a single dollar was drawn from the university's budget or, for that matter, from the U.N.'s regular budget, since the university is entirely financed through voluntary contributions. HEITOR GURGULINO DE SOUZA, Rector U.N. University Office in North America New York City...