We all know that you can go from community to community and see some elementary, middle and high school campuses that look like college campuses, while others look like prisons.

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I'm a bright enough guy, but all the great books I'll ever read I read in college and graduate school, and my musical tastes are straight down the middle: Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Mostly Mozart, the Brandenburgs, a little cool jazz, a few show tunes.

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Winchester has a large liberal-minded public-sector middle-class: Hampshire County Council, the Winchester School of Art, King Alfred's College, and the genteel types round its ancient cathedral and public school.

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The back-to-school discussion focused on helping families save and pay for college amid rising tuition costs and flat-lining middle class incomes.

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