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...little kid, and I wanted to go to Harvard really well in high school, and went off to Connecticut to go to boarding school specifically for the purpose of going on to Harvard." Duritz says, however, that he blew his chances while in boarding school. "I ended up at Berkeley," he continues, "which was fine too, because later on I wanted to be at Berkeley. But at the time, when I was a kid, that [going to Harvard] was like what I dreamed about...
...Duritz, referring to the college scene that he and the rest of Counting Crows are playing for much of the final leg of their U. S. tour. He is making reference to the time he spent as a student at both University of California at Davis and U. C. Berkeley a decade ago before Counting Crows even existed. The band is wrapping up a highly successful tour that has spanned a year-and-a-half and has brought it to the Boston area three times, including last week's performances at Brandeis University and UMass Amherst...
...immigrated to the U.S. and became a citizen. During the '80s, he taught and worked at the University of California at Berkeley and the Hoover Institute at Stanford...
...their teachers are green, hired almost straight out of graduate school for this program. Another factor: the program aims to attract underachievers, on the theory that they have the most to gain. To sort through these conflicting elements, the district has hired statistical experts from the University of California, Berkeley...
...role into alliances with local Teamsters officials around the U.S., including some who were later purged during Carey's tenure because of corruption. And Hoffa's support "wasn't confined to the union's old guard," says Harley Shaiken, professor and labor-relations specialist at the University of California, Berkeley. It also reflected the Teamsters' unhappiness with its own place, slipping in the economy...