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...Phillips today bears little resemblance to the school I attended 25 years ago. Back then, it had 4,000 students and anchored the black Chicago community where I grew up. Today, with enrollment down to only 1,171, there is talk of closing the three-story, 88- year-old brick structure that is the alma mater of such celebrities as Nat King Cole, Sam Cooke and Dinah Washington as well as hundreds of black business and professional leaders. "Although the school is not what it was back in the '60s, it certainly does do a lot for this community," says...
...perhaps the greatest flip-flop-flip-agains in political history, Texas billionaire Rose Perot re-entered the race for the presidency. As an undeclared candidate, Perot led in the polls consistently until his "grassroots" movements hit the brick wall...
...brick square of sorts bordered by the glass windows of the Cambridge Trust Bank, Mass. Ave. and the T station. Most tourists and students on their way to the subway or to stores and cafes around Harvard Square avoid lingering in this smoky hangout of would-be adolescent punks sporting black leather, spikes and the latest in hair design and coloring. The pit is a hangout, and it's nothing like the IHOP or the yogurt store you liked to dawdle in after school. This is a real urban joint, the territory of ruthless teen-age druggies and anarchists...
...thought "Pat's Towing Service" would be a big parking lot with hundreds of impounded cars stretching all the way to Framingham. But the reality was even scarier. The towing operation is housed in a very gothic-looking brick building that looks like something out of "The Munsters. "The interior of the building is dark and oily. Broken down and smashed automobiles line the entry. And then you meet...
...each new crop of first years, three decades is enough to make a Square tradition seem as old as their red brick dormitories...