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...submitted for use in California said they were "shocked" by the frequency of mistakes--as many as one on every four pages. Mel and Norma Gabler, the self-anointed textbook watchdogs of Longview, Texas, have been compiling detailed lists of textbook errors since 1961; their most recent scroll of shame is 54 ft. long...
...huge impact. Harry is seen in bookshops all over France, and the invasion has just begun. He is bringing back the joy of reading to French kids. But the French grudge against things foreign still exists, and Rowling may not get the full attention she deserves. That's a shame, as only Harry has the power to overcome the resistance of kids to reading. The French just won't admit it. NICOLAS DIDIER Grenoble, France...
...Billy Cleary. Really, the man has done it all--great player, gold medal winner, NCAA Champion coach. What would have been especially nice, though, would be to have his reaction to all the festivities. Cleary, however, refuses to talk to reporters from The Harvard Crimson. It's a shame, too, because, from all accounts, he is otherwise a genuinely good man, but one with a remarkable grudge against this paper. And why the Eli jersey? Why? ... The Princeton game was Harvard's first since the graduation of Tiger goon Benoit Morin. Though the Tigers tried, they couldn't conjure...
...proposals are not incongruous with what has come before. But it would be a shame if Catholics and other Christians let skepticism about Carroll's earnest yet implausible cures deprive them of his masterly history of one of the West's epic plagues...
...flacking for the future. His object is not to move CDs, but hearts. He means to reinvigorate the American imagination with the glories of this music, and at the same time, to remind and warn viewers that jazz was born out of a fierce challenge to the abiding shame of American racism. If that means looking back longer than looking forward, then that's the way it should be, and that's the way Burns and Ward let it play out. Besides, with Armstrong playing Star Dust, or Young taking a solo, or Holiday singing Strange Fruit, the weight...