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...despite support from the Dukakis administration and the State's Democratic Party, State Rep. Thomas M. Galilagher (D-Brighton), the bill's sponsor, said last week that the measure has little chance to pass this year...
...BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS by Neil Simon
...endearing aspect of Brighton Beach Memoirs is that the mask has slipped a little. Without slighting his potent comic gifts, Simon looks back, not in anger, remorse or undue guilt but with fondly nourished compassion, at himself as an adolescent in 1937 and at the almost asphyxiatingly close-knit family around him. While the play housed at Broadway's Alvin Theater does not fully attain the playwright's highest aims, it does give off compelling glints of an urban Morning's at Seven, a ghetto Our Town and a wryly caustic Ah, Wilderness! Like them, Brighton Beach...
...many Asians, stress is the price of survival. Nearly half the 160 Vietnamese students at Brighton High School in Boston left their families in Viet Nam or in refugee camps. These immigrants must learn English at school in bilingual programs. In a Brighton chemistry class, Teacher Dang Pham lectures about the dac, the long and the khi before discussing the concepts of solid, liquid and gas in English. When test time comes, most students choose to take the test in English. Says Pham: "They have to learn to adjust to a new system in a new society so they...
...hunt demands both resilience and resourcefulness. Says Michael Grady, a Brighton, Mass., pediatrician who owns about 800 signed covers: "I pursue autographs the way reporters go after stories." When Columnist Drew Pearson (1948) turned him down, Grady reminded him that journalists themselves depend on perseverance. Pearson signed. Arthur Kaminsky, a New York City attorney with 750 covers, addressed one unsuccessful request to "Ayatullah Khomeini, Tehran, Iran...