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...parents use vouchers in suburban public schools. Ohio's voucher law was written to allow vouchers to be used in the suburban schools, but only in those that agreed to take them. Bert Holt, director of Cleveland's voucher program, had high hopes when she made the rounds of suburban school districts to persuade them to sign up. But not one suburb agreed to accept students from the city's heavily poor and minority student population. Result: 80% of Cleveland's vouchers are being used in religious schools...
Definitely the most obscure piece of the concert was Martin's "Memorial to Lidice." Written in dedication to the town of Lidice near Prague, the atrocities recounted in Martin's short eight minute tribute point to an event that was, as stated by the program notes, the "sharpest and most damning description ever drawn of the nature of Nazism." The town's crime: supposed involvement in the killing of SS Upper Group Leader Reinhard Heydrich. Their punishment: "all male citizens of the town were shot...The township was leveled to the ground and the name of the community extinguished." Blacklisted...
...student-written and directed play focuses on a Harvard senior who is contemplating suicide. Triad, a drama, will play through...
...three-page press release on seth bechis' accomplishments written by his adoring parents will haunt the pre-frosh for at least 525,600 minutes...
Just last year, many of the actors in this show were mere babes donning their bright Harvard sweatshirts for the first time. Now they're not quite sophomores, but this group of talented freshmen have written, produced, directed and are now performing in a musical they'd love you to see. Their version of the Hong Kong opens today. Agassiz Theatre, Radcliffe Yard, 10 Garden...