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...schools that are so desperately in need of funds. But Jencks believes that his criticism will actually help the schools. "If schools were less obsessed with trying to teach the skills that they presume will be the keys to economic success later in life, then schools might be nicer places to be in while you were there. I hope that by saying that there isn't that great a link between what you teach a person in school and whether or not they make a buck later you can force schools to justify themselves in their own right, that they...
...Kennedys or no Kennedys, Sargent Shriver would be seeking a high position. "For 250 years my family has been in public office," he says. "We've always been bankers, businessmen, public officials. It's a natural thing." The Shriver pride is an inherited trait. "We're nicer than the Kennedys," his mother once said. "We've been here since the 1600s. We're rooted in the land in Maryland...
...Harvard Bookstore (1248 Mass Ave) also stocks many textbooks and the staff is much nicer than the Coop's. They have a big used textbook section, and at the end of the term you can sell them your books for fairly good prices...
...tennis players will have nicer weather today and tomorrow than the dismal drizzle which forced them indoors yesterday. But the switch won't help the Crimson...
...energy to the job. The drive to excel pushed her slowly up the male-dominated ranks to a vice presidency, paying an estimated $50,000 or more. She fears that her drive also earned her accusations of being ambitious, even ruthless, and she concedes: "I am a much nicer person now than I was when getting here." Interestingly, after she made it there, she gave birth to a daughter-at the age of 47. She and her husband, a Gulf Oil executive, were delighted...