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Perhaps most absurd is the controversy surrounding treatment of the founding fathers. It seems that paying unqualified tribute to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson is now a suspect act. Tours of Mt. Vernon now include a supplemental section focused on the poor condition of the slaves held there. New Orleans recently removed Washington's name from a public elementary school out of sensitivity to black students. If this process of retrospective condemnation continues, our currency may soon require quite a facelift. May I suggest Jesse Jackson for the dollar bill...
What set this "Real World" apart from the juicier editions set in New York and San Francisco was not the nasty infighting or the steamy on-set relationships--there were neither--but the atmosphere: a funky redecorated firehouse on Mt. Vernon Street in Boston. When the angst of our magnificent seven got to be too much to handle, the background shots of Faneuil Hall, the State House and even Harvard Square redeemed the episode. With the conclusion of the Boston "Real World," the firehouse is funky no longer and we've lost one of the few shows filmed in Beantown...
...Vernon Jarret, a retired Chicago Sun Times columnist added that although Clinton may be less than an ideal figure, he's more sympathetic to the issues the black community finds important than many other leaders...
Ault, who is teaching Chemistry 30: "Organic Chemistry" this semester, is taking a semester sabbatical from Cornell College in Mount Vernon, IA. But Ault is not new to the Harvard chemistry department--he earned his Ph.D. there in 1960 and has taught introductory organic chemistry at the Summer School for the past 11 years...
Goalies. Roy. Schumacher. Richter. Vernon...