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...alderman father-in-law and a federal investigation into pension and hiring irregularities - it's no wonder that many critics and pundits wonder if the Governor's lofty goals are just posturing. The state's record on education and children's well-being, after all, isn't much to brag about. The state has some of the top public schools in the country, but ranks near last overall in education funding. And while the group Kids Count reported this week that Illinois shot up from near bottom of its annual well-being ranking of states' children, the state still languishes...
...much of Britain today, being an Etonian is not something you really want to brag about. The well of resentment is too deep. Rory, a student in his fourth year (students' last names are being withheld at the school's request), still regrets answering honestly on a transatlantic flight when his seatmate asked where he went to school. "For six hours he kept making snide remarks," he says. Douglas Hurd, Margaret Thatcher's Foreign Secretary, wrote in his memoir that his family believed "that if I had not gone to Eton I would have become Prime Minister in 1990." (That...
Twenty-five years after Alice Randall ’81 graduated from the College, her daughter Caroline will join Harvard as a freshman. She considers the girl her finest piece of work.Randall has plenty else to brag about, from her controversial parody of the Reconstruction classic “Gone With The Wind” to a country song that made her the only African-American woman to pen a chart-topper. But even in these creative efforts, she examines motherhood and what it means to be a daughter.Randall will deliver the Radcliffe Day speech Friday morning in Memorial Church...
...only number with which I’ll leave college? To prove to my parents the value of my time spent devoted to touchdowns rather than term papers? To prove to my roommates it was worth missing the hours I could have spent with them? To brag? To bookend? To get some kind of closure?Or just to remember?The sports section I produced for Commencement last year—the predecessor of the one you’re reading now—had 32 pages, but what I remember most is how I hid the Nintendo games...
...crime rate. The number of murders this year has nearly doubled last year's count for the same period. There are problems with street robberies and what the cops call rat packers, gangs of kids who beat up people on buses and then head back to school to brag about it. The local jails are sometimes too full to permit arrests for certain crimes. A local television report recently quoted an Oakland police estimate that one-fourth of the city's prostitutes were underage. Crime has dropped since Brown became mayor, but it's rising again, fast...