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Levowitz’s original rock adaptation of ”Mozart’s Don Giovanni — a rock opera” has ambition ... that is an accessibility issue. Also, I assume that Levowitz was unaware that one of his passages ...

Many respondents said they’re settling or anticipate settling on some conditions to secure a job, although fewer reported a willingness to do so compared with last year.

“The Chocolate War,” published 50 years ago, became one of the country’s most challenged books. Its author, Robert Cormier, spent years fighting attempts to ban it — like many authors ...