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IMMIGRANT SONGS: Elise Witt incorporates music in teaching English

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We are all the kin of immigrants or refugees — if you go back far enough. In the past three to...
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CLIFF BOSTOCK: An Atlanta voice goes silent

THE BOOK NEVER WRITTEN: Publishing house Harper and Row had asked Cliff Bostock (center) to get a photo taken for publicity and the cover of the book he was awarded a contract to write.
Remembering the writer and editor
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