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...shame that the debate over mathematics education must be drawn in such black-and-white terms. Understanding mathematics' most beautiful results requires both a comfort with nuts-and-bolts calculation and creative problem solving. Neglecting either aspect of students' education is not a good formula for success. DANIEL SCHER Livingston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 15, 1997 | 9/15/1997 | See Source »

...first Woodstock became a symbol of communalism by accident. Says John Scher, an executive with Polygram Records, which invested in Woodstock '94: "There's this myth that Woodstock was a free festival. It wasn't a free concert at all, and it wasn't intended to be a free concert." On that weekend in '69, the kids broke down the fences; the promoters couldn't stop the influx, so they gave in to the inevitable and announced that the show was free. It was a huge money loser for its backers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Woodstock Suburb | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

...that's one of the reasons we're playing. It's helping us make up a lot of the money we've lost touring, being out there keeping our ticket prices low." The best-paid acts received $250,000, and all will receive a share of ancillary royalties. Promoter Scher of Polygram Records says he turned down sponsorship offers from such companies as Marlboro, Coors, Budweiser and Seagram's. "This is 1994. This is not 1969. What everything costs is hundreds of times what it cost in 1969," he says. "Had we taken the beer sponsorships and liquor and tobacco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Woodstock Suburb | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

Ryles--George Schuller, Ben Scher, Marshall Wood...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? | 4/30/1987 | See Source »

...Peter E. Scher contributed to this story...

Author: By Emil E. Parker, | Title: From East to West, Here's the Best | 3/12/1987 | See Source »

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