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...been more than 60 years since a school went up in Chelsea, a crumbling city of 26,000 immigrants and blue-collar workers on Boston Harbor. Even now, with the state offering to pay 90% of the costs, the city board of aldermen refuses to spend local funds for a badly needed high school and elementary school. Language and cultural obstacles compound the system's problems: over half of the 3,300 students speak Spanish or Cambodian at home. Faced with sagging test scores and a 17% annual dropout rate, many parents and local leaders seem willing to try anything...
...recent presidential race. But after a year of national concern about crack wars, followed by a summer of worry over the greenhouse effect and kindred ecological disasters, Manuel Noriega has become the favorite foreign leader of Democratic speechwriters, while Bush has taken to deploring the condition of Boston Harbor...
...rest of the globe poised to follow, the American people were faced with a choice between a pair of interventionists, F.D.R. and Wendell Willkie. But both men, dissembling their true convictions, came down the campaign homestretch as quasi-isolationists. Their waffling reflected a national division, not closed until Pearl Harbor...
Beginning with their criticism of Quayle's failure to answer the opening question, the 15 voters in the Heitger living room provided play-by-play commentary. As soon as Quayle mentioned the pollution in Boston Harbor, Donna McManus, the wife of a policeman, exclaimed, "That's the same as the campaign ad." After an artful Bentsen attack on Bush's ties to Panamanian General Manuel Noriega, Betty Heitger whispered to her husband, "You've got to admit, this guy is very skilled." Halfway through the debate, even the strong Bush partisans were dismayed as Quayle seemed to derail. Die-hard...
Owned by Bob Brody, the executive chef at the Sheraton Harbor Island in San Diego, and local lawyer Bob Fucillo, who will be the restaurant's general manager, the First Street Cafe promises to be a respectable addition to nouvelle American dining in this area. It features a take-out counter, a bar and even seating in the building's interior courtyard--and all this in thorougly upscale surroundings. This is a restaurant that definitely caters to the new crowd along the Cambridge waterfront...