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...site of Chicago??s Sue Duncan Childrens’ Center is a grainy reprinted photo of a group of boys and young men dated 1977. Of the group, one has become a brain surgeon, another is a top administrator in education, and a third is an Oscar-nominated actor. Three of the others pictured are now dead—victims of violence in the tough neighborhoods of Chicago??s South Side. And finally, one gangly child smiles into the camera with a basketball palmed in his adolescent hand. More than 30 years later...
Renee Zellweger—the Texan actress who has appeared movies ranging from “Bridget Jones’s Diary” to “Jerry Maguire” to “Chicago??—will receive the Hasty Pudding Theatricals’ Woman of the Year award this upcoming Thursday...
Kagan has received praise for record fundraising, winning approval for significant changes to the first-year curriculum, and poaching distinguished law professors like Chicago??s Cass R. Sunstein ‘75 and Stanford’s Lawrence Lessig...
President-elect Barack Obama selected Chicago Public Schools CEO and Harvard Overseer Arne S. Duncan ’86 last month to fill the post of Secretary of Education, touting Duncan’s hands-on experience with public education at a joint press conference at Chicago??s Dodge Renaissance School, one of the institutions that Duncan targeted for reform since becoming head of the country’s third-largest public school system...
...news conference in December, Duncan cited his mother’s after-school tutoring program on the South Side of Chicago??in Obama and Duncan’s home neighborhood of Hyde Park—as inspiration, saying his experiences there had a large impact on his commitment to improving inner-city education, and his love for basketball...