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...Maine. In the early '90s she surveyed Maine high school dropouts, who all cited their inability to keep up with homework as a major factor in the decision to leave school. Kralovec's solution to the inequities: "Homework should be done in school by all students--poor, middle and upper class--so that they all have the same access to computers and teachers." Boston's Dorchester High School has taken a step in that direction, opening up classrooms after school, where students can do homework under the watchful eye of teachers...
There may be no more appropriate lab in which to study the Jesse phenomenon than the Mall of America, which is referred to by all six or seven cynics in Minnesota as the Fall of America. On an upper level there's a Planet Hollywood next to a Hooters. Several Hooters waitresses are split on Jesse's virtues...
Much of the Big Three's luxury lag has to do with changing consumer tastes. The high-end market has detoured dramatically from the posh, living-room-on-wheels tradition of Cadillacs and Lincolns that once defined upper-middle-class status. Today's luxury buyers, guided by the Information Age, are less extravagant, more practical and technologically sharper. "The status symbol used to be 'I've got money,'" says Jim Press, general manager of Toyota Motor Sales USA. "But here in the late 1990s, it's 'I've got good taste.' The days of conspicuous consumption are gone...
...when they were kids. This acerbic farce-melodrama, laureled at Cannes and by critics' groups, is directed in a fake-verite style that distracts a bit from the entertaining spectacle of the rich airing their bloody silk underwear in public. But it's still creepy fun to watch the upper class pretend a family isn't in tatters. When propriety meets outrage in a chateau, guess which one wins? Cognac, anyone...
...some meat behind the rhetoric of bipartisanship that dominated the opening of the new Congress. The obstacle this time, as it was last time, will undoubtedly be the Senate, where the legislation died last year. But even if the Senate fails to pass campaign reform again this year, the upper chamber may have its own opportunity to demonstrate that it too can salve wounds and move on following an impeachment trial. "The appetite for bipartisan activity in the Senate is focused on saving and reforming Social Security," says Dickerson. "Both parties there are for it." Maybe the realization...