Word: solon
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Church leaders intended to keep the 68-page report under wraps until the bishops had voted on it Aug. 24 during the church's convention in Indianapolis. But last week a conservative caucus, Episcopalians United, of Solon, Ohio, defiantly published the secret document in an effort to rally opposition...
...bronze plaques in the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. All the names can be found in Bill James' new book, The Politics of Glory: How Baseball's Hall of Fame Really Works (Macmillan; $25). For 452 sizzling pages, the game's premier stats solon and most passionate fan stir-fries the old debate about who does and doesn't deserve to be there. "The Hall of Fame," he writes, "has never really thought through the issue of how to identify the most worthy Hall of Famers." His evidence: comparison of players' records and eyewitness...
...there is any real problem with this production, it involves the issue of critical distance. In writing about an era that had passed, Eliot felt free to comment on it, as a humorist and stern solon. By contrast, the mini-series is more of a period piece. It replicates the story but reflects only in part the wisdom of Eliot's novel...
...Solon Sadoway, 11, has never been to school, and displays not a whit of curiosity about the place. He is a car buff who most days pores over auto magazines at home in Lenox, Mass. Solon taught himself to read last year ("I really don't quite remember how," he muses) and learned basic arithmetic by handling the cash register at his parents' health-food store...
Professional educators blanch at the movement's expansion, and as the trend increases, their concerns rise about the quality of such instruction. Bruce Wheeler, an industrial-arts teacher in Wilton, N.H., frets about his nephew Solon Sadoway's progress. "This is a hit-or-miss effort," he says. "If he doesn't learn something, nobody notices." "If you need a license to cut hair," argues Donald Bemis, state supervisor of public instruction in Michigan, "you should have one to mold a kid's mind...