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...familiar with Chicago, having been a grad student at Northwestern in the mid-to-late ’70s,” he said. “I used to literally leave class and go down to [the SAIC] and play hooky...
DEFROCKED. PAUL SHANLEY, 73, once hailed as a hero and dubbed the "hippie priest" for his work with street kids in the 1960s and '70s, but indicted in 2002 for raping four boys in the 1980s. The scandal rocked the Boston archdiocese and the U.S. Catholic Church. Shanley was released on $300,000 bail and awaits trial...
...commanders insist that the Marines will maintain a presence around the city. Many in Easy Company view the decision as a retreat from the U.S. pledge to drive the "bad guys" out of Fallujah. "Does this remind you," Pantano says, "of another part of the world in the early '70s...
Starting in the early '70s, Prince Edward gradually integrated over the next three decades, thanks to an ambitious superintendent who improved academics and to liberal faculty at two local colleges who began sending their children to public school. Today Prince Edward's public schools are 59% black, 40% white and 1% other. Without violence, busing or magnet schools, the community that once chose no schools over racially mixed ones has achieved a level of integration far above the national average--typically, a white child attends a school that is 79% white. At the same time, Prince Edward's students...
...Smith continued to hear from his constituents that they wanted a return to the way the county's schools were in the early '70s. Says Smith: "[Voters would] ask me, 'How come my kids can't go to the school that I can throw a stone at out my bedroom window? How come they're being sent away, riding down 95 because of their skin color?'" In 2000, after an emotional debate played out in the Op-Ed pages of the local paper and in public hearings, Smith pushed the Neighborhood Schools Act through the legislature. The law requires children...