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Hold the Phone The trustees of Washington's American University offered the school's former President, Richard Berendzen, a $1 million settlement after he pleaded guilty to making obscene calls to a female day-care worker and resigned his post. The deal caused such an uproar that a month later it was rescinded. But Berendzen still gets some $380,000 in severance pay and works as a full professor in the physics department (he's an astronomer) at about $70,000 a year...
...handicapped further by Bush's desultory leadership. Since the President announced six national education goals last January, he, Congress and the nation's Governors have done little but squabble over who will assess whether the goals are being met. (Among the targets: every adult must be a skilled, literate worker and citizen; every school must be drug free...
...recognize that if I cut you, you cut me, we've got the same blood. Flesh and blood, we get along with one another," says Isaac Scott, 77, who went back to the rural town of Barnwell, S.C., after 49 years in New Haven, Conn., mostly as a construction worker. "The Southern accent sounds beautiful to me now," says Dykes. "That's the way it should have been the whole time...
...much right as you've got, fine. If you've got borderlines, let them be in your mind." For some blacks resettled in the South, the Northern cities they left behind have long ago abandoned any pretense of racial detente. In Barnwell, Scott, the retired construction worker, says he follows TV news reports about the way people up North are "fighting and don't want to live here and don't want to live there. To me, there is more prejudice up there now than there is down South...
...life-size cardboard figures of local police officers next to such tempting items as film and cosmetics. The cutouts cost Cub $500 apiece but have reduced shoplifting in the store 30% in the past six weeks. "We don't have to feed them, pay them, give them vacation or worker's comp," says assistant manager L.J. Stevens. "We just clean them off once a week with a dustcloth...