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...place in the world. On the day last June when his parents drove to New York City to claim his body, they were nearly catatonic with grief. The young Russian-studies scholar had jumped from a 10th-floor window of the Milford Plaza Hotel and bounced off the hood of a stretch limousine. When the police arrived, his fingers were still clutching $171 in cash, virtually the only money he hadn't yet turned over to the Church of Scientology, the self-help "philosophy" group he had discovered just seven months earlier. (See pictures of spiritual healing around the world...
Poor communities are looking for the courts to save them, Robin Hood-style, by shifting funds from richer ones. "There are school districts with swimming pools," growls Steve Honselman, a school-board vice president in Illinois' Casey-Westfield district. "Meanwhile, we don't have advanced-placement classes." He and his wife are part of a class action demanding that the state equalize school funding. "With three children in the schools," says Honselman, "we've tried everything from bake sales to raffles to raise funds. But we can't raise enough." Last week Texas failed for a third time to come...
...although both Hood and Casper have distinguished records in their academic fields and in university administration, neither has spent any time at Harvard, whether as a student or as a professor...
...Donald C. Hood, professor of psychology and former vice president of arts and sciences at Columbia University...
DONALD C. HOOD...