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FLASHBACK 1996: How Sima Vaghti put homework on the tables of low-income children.
Several people feel Vaghti is an old-fashioned heroine transplanted into the burned-out '90s—the kind of crusader who seems to work around the clock and never give up when increasing numbers of people are cynical, tired and backing away from challenge.
Sima Vaghti In commemoration of City Weekly's 40th anniversary, we are digging into our archives to celebrate. Each week, we FLASHBACK to a story or column from our past in honor of four decades of local alt-journalism. Whether the names and issues are familiar or new, we are grateful to have this unique newspaper to contain them all.
Title: Mission Education Author: Carolyn Campbell Date: April 18, 1996 As a slight yet stately Iranian woman, with a smile as broad and warm as noonday sun, enters the tutoring office at a Salt Lake City public housing complex, a laughing group of at least 20…
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