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...operation that started seven years ago in San Mateo, Calif., now has 61 outposts operating in 14 states that provide educational play for about 10,000 children. "Learning to read begins at birth," says one of Gymboree's brochures, but the $4 classes are mainly physical, ranging from "wee workouts" for beginners up to "gymgrad" for tots as old as four. "We've tried to create a 'yes' environment for the children, to place them...
Hadzi works hard and fast. He always has. As a child during the Depression he shined shoes to earn cash. Working in his studio most nights until the wee hours, he averages four to six hours of sleep a night. More often than not, these work hours pay off. In 1979 the Archdiocese of Boston phoned him 10 days before the Pope was due to arrive to ask him to sculpt the processional crucifix. The artist did it in seven...
...true Scots accent." The son of a Scottish-born laborer, Stewart gargles with a working-class London rasp that will never fool them in the Highlands, but his recently tailored kilt (Stewart clan) would certainly baffle the groupies in Bel-Air. His tartan roots have the rock star a wee bit nervous about playing Glasgow during his current seven-month, 51-city world tour. "It's my heritage," says Stewart. "That's where I have to hold my head up high." Och, laddie, dinna worry. Just sweetly sing in tune...
Perhaps she still hadn't climbed out in early spring of 1982, when President Reagan fired Joy Simonson, the administrator of the federal programs mandated by the Women's Education Equity (WEE) Act, and replaced her with one of Phyllis Schlafly's assistants from the Eagle Forum. Feminists, including Barney Frank, publicly expressed outrage, but Heckler, who had been a very vocal supporter of the WEE Act, greeted Reagan's dicy move with a roaring silence...
...Daley. After Washington's upset win last week, however, it appeared the twice-elected Congressman and his staff might not only enter city hall but own it. "You want Harold?" he cracked to a chanting throng of jubilant well-wishers in his South Side hotel in the wee hours following election day. "You've really...