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...Salamanca's 6,600 residents, who own their houses but lease the land, point out that hard times have already wiped out half the town's small businesses. Many residents claim they will leave rather than see typical rents leap from $7-a-year to $4,700. Says Realtor Shirley Weast: "What they're proposing is an absolute death sentence...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Gyavira Lasana, Melinda J. McAdams, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
COPY DESK: Judith Anne Paul, Shirley Barden Zimmerman (Deputies); Barbara Dudley Davis, Evelyn Hannon, Jill Ward (Copy Coordinators); Minda Bikman, Doug Bradley, Robert Braine, Bruce Christopher Carr, Barbara Collier, Julia Van Buren Dickey, Dora Fairchild, Judith Kales, Sharon Kapnick, Claire Knopf, Gyavira Lasana, Melinda J. McAdams, Anna F. Monardo, Maria A. Paul, Elyse Segelken, Terry Stoller, Amelia Weiss (Copy Editors...
...tabloid headlines of popular perception, Beatty may be typecast as the roguish movie actor, or the legendary roue, or Shirley MacLaine's current brother, or the man who persuaded Gary Hart to make one last humiliating run for the presidency. But he is also, over the past quarter-century, the movies' most distinctive producer-star, with Bonnie and Clyde, Shampoo, Heaven Can Wait and Reds to his credit (and Ishtar to his debit). As the only person to have been nominated for Oscars in four different categories on two separate occasions -- for acting in, and producing, writing and directing Reds...
...have used Kumon are generally enthusiastic about the results, a few question the value of the repetitious system, with its heavy emphasis on the mechanics of math. Some are unconvinced that test-score increases are attributable to Kumon, while others object to the $45-a-pupil annual cost. Shirley Frye, president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, takes a balanced view. "Of course there is no panacea for teaching math," she says. "We are looking for all of the methods that will help make students successful." Kumon certainly seems to be one of them...