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Paul A. Perry, assistant dean of the School of Education, said that the main reason behind dropping the second year was a shortage of qualified classroom supervisors in the Boston area...
...while another one yanks one of your hands off of the limb above you. They even sawed off one limb with a person still on it. The police lowered some people head first and shoved others into the uplifted bulldozer jaws. On the ground, they handcuffed their arms behind their backs and sometimes tossed them over their shoulders like logs (three cops per tree person) to carry to the vans. Twenty-seven people were arrested. The last person to come down was a gutsy girl in the top of a cypress. The police could never have reached her without...
This come-from-behind victory seemed to take the wind out of the sails of a spirited Springfield squad, and Harvard further discouraged the Chiefs by winning the next three events for a 27-7 advantage...
...rediscovery of the ethnic community ( Beyond the Melting Pot ). Perhaps Moynihan could soft-pedal his policy as "the creation of black suburbs." The creation of black suburbs, though, has been going on for many years; to some extent, it has aggravated the social disorientation of the blacks left behind. Moynihan actually has in mind a federally financed migration out of the ghetto. But to where- the white suburbs, the rural hinterlands, the sea? Whatever its messianic possibilities, the details of the migration remain unclear...
...aggravate stolidly Republican suburbia. Moynihan correctly calls urban government "fragmented and obsolescent." The flight of both industry and middle class to the suburbs has eaten away at the urban tax base. This smaller tax base must simultaneously finance more and more government services for the outcast population left behind...