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...their district can pull their children out of particular classes by informing the principal. The program is sometimes popular, as it is at P.S. 42, but the effort to accommodate everyone is unacceptable to many. Last month the board of education mandated sex education for the remaining eleven school districts without it. Last week 250 protesters showed up at city hall to object...
...will have to lighten its load considerably, and the company shows signs of doing just that. Chairman Roger Smith announced two weeks ago that next year GM will begin the largest slimming-down operation in its history. Just for starters, he said, the company will close or cut back eleven outmoded plants in four states. These steps, which will cost at least 29,000 jobs out of 762,500 worldwide, will reduce GM's capacity by more than 750,000 vehicles a year, to just over 7 million...
...Eleven years ago, a now-chubby Boston sport-scaster, Mike Lynch, booted a late field goal to give Harvard a 10-7 win and its only outright Ivy crown...
...results did not constitute the sweeping trend toward a realignment of regional politics that Republicans had sought. Defying tidy analysis, eleven states chose candidates from opposing parties for Senator and Governor. Unlike the Senate contests, the Governors' races found the Democrats far more vulnerable: 27 of 36 seats at stake had been held by Democrats. Yet in the West, where eight Democratic executive mansions were at risk, Republicans managed a net gain of only...
...cortege at the funeral of Mozambique President Samora Machel, killed in an October jetliner crash in South Africa, was led by two founders of the ruling Marxist Party, which won independence from Portugal in 1975 after a bloody eleven-year civil war. Last week the younger of the two men, Foreign Minister Joaquim Chissano, 47, was selected by the party's 130-member Central Committee to succeed Machel as President. In choosing the urbane, pragmatic Chissano over Vice President Marcelino dos Santos, who is a hard-line Marxist, the party signaled a continuation of Machel's flexible, westward-looking policies...