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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harvard effort to fill the imposing gap has got off to a modest start, boosted by the announcement last week that Milwaukee superintendent Robert Peterkin had resigned his embattled post to direct the program. Ten students, seven of them minority-group members, have begun a three-year doctoral exercise that includes a six-month internship in an urban superintendent's office. The effort is mercifully short on theory and long on experience and real life. Students -- most with more than a decade in public education -- role-play different sides in past labor negotiations, face local television reporters and ponder administrative...
...program will hardly ease a national crisis, but it is a start. Says John Porter, Detroit's retiring superintendent: "Harvard needs to tell these people there is no answer unless someone comes up with a vaccine. The fundamental issue is that the right conditions in cities to educate children don't exist." But the very existence of the Harvard course proclaims that simply throwing up one's hands will...
Christmas sales started especially early this year, as nervous retailers tried to get a head start on the competition. Labor Day had barely passed when some retailers started decking their shelves with tinsel and flashing lights, startling more than a few suntanned customers. By Halloween, major stores were slashing prices on everything from furs and evening clothes to CD players and toys...
...Iraq without congressional approval. The Washington Post sought out the opinions of eight presidential scholars, and all but one were worried about Bush's softening hold on the American mind; their dour musings were syndicated across the country. This week the Senate's Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees start hearings on gulf policy, the kind of forum that will be tilted toward doubters...
...minute drill to race the clock to the end zone. In the Nov. 4 game against the Green Bay Packers, with only 38 sec. remaining in the first half and his team down 10-0, Montana took the 49ers 59 yds. in 27 sec. to jump-start a 24-20 victory...