Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Such disarray hurts children from all classes; wealth may in fact make it harder for some children to cope. Says Hal Klor, a guidance counselor at Chicago's Lincoln Park High School: "The kids born into a project, they handle it. But the middle-class kids. All of a sudden -- a divorce, loss of job, status. Boom. Depression...
Liberal lawyers are frank about the reasons behind their change in venue. "I came face to face with Reagan's federal appointees and got tired of being kicked around," says Jim Harrington, legal director of the Texas Civil Rights Project. Harrington has not filed a major civil rights case in federal courts in the past seven years. Two years ago, though, he convinced the Texas Supreme Court that the state's constitutional right to privacy precluded mandatory lie-detector tests for state employees. And in 1984 he won the right to workers' compensation for itinerant field hands under a state...
CONDOM's goal will be to give Harvard students visual, auditory and tactile access to objects which have been unfairly suppressed in America. Our first project is to drive a Ford Pinto into the middle of Harvard Yard. Secondly, we will douse Archie Epps and Joseph Nye in Tab Cola. Then, we will stop at nothing short of a Core course discussing the needlessly canceled NBC hit, "Manimal...
...Gene Switzer, who is overseeing this portion of the Brattle Square project, disputed the students' claim that the noise begins as early...
...neither signs of hardening alienation nor scattered election returns signal border-to-border upheaval. Norman Ornstein, a consultant on the Times Mirror project, argues, "Linkage between these attitudes and political action hasn't yet been made in most places." One reason is that the Persian Gulf crisis has dominated the news and overshadowed the hard-to-focus outrage at the S&L debacle. Further, many entrenched incumbents raised so much money so early that worthy rivals never entered the fray...