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...many Southern pols, Clinton does not have a Velcro personality, attaching country ways at home, then peeling them away in the fund-raising parlors of Norman Lear and Pamela Harriman. He makes $35,000 a year (supplemented by his wife's salary as a lawyer). He helps his daughter Chelsea, 11, with algebra by fax from the road. He is passionate about crossword puzzles, and golfs and vacations every year with a group of close friends in South Carolina. He has been wearing off-the-rack clothes since the word got out that one of his suits cost...
Some opponents of tenure argue that the collective-bargaining process is the root problem. Peter Greer, on leave as dean of Boston University's School of Education and now acting superintendent of schools in Chelsea, Mass., the troubled system that the university agreed to manage two years ago, says the "tyranny" of collective bargaining dooms any school-reform effort. Greer is currently being sued by Chelsea teachers for hiring four untenured teachers over tenured ones for a program to prevent high school dropouts...
Movements in many other communities have been shoved aside. For instance, the Chelsea school system, run by Boston University, rejected a similar plan by a to 1 margin. And in Worcester, the school recently suspended students for passing out condoms to their peers...
Five years later (minus a brief stint in 1986-87 working for another fast food chain), Wernher P. is still there, now with his brother, Berkeley. The two share an apartment in Chelsea...
Catherine Snow, acting dean at the Harvard School of Education, agrees that the relationship between B.U. and Chelsea is more the exception than the rule...