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...either portrait of the American student--be it of the self-centered Wall Street wanna-be of the Reagan years or the new civic-minded academicians--is all that valid. Chances are that far less than one-tenth of one percent of college students end up making $80,000 in their first year out in the real world. Likewise, whatever recent surveys may suggest about suddenly altruistic and selfless students, it seems unlikely that future college grads will flock in any great numbers to teaching underprivileged high school students...
Peretz spoke at the home of two members of the Cambridge Civic Assocation, a local political group that sponsored the talk...
Start with the veracity of Joe Isuzu. Add the civic virtue of Al Capone, the greed of Ivan Boesky, the gentility of a China Seas pirate. Wed this paragon to a bimbo on the make with the vanity of a Marie Antoinette and a shopping lust that would turn a Beverly Hills divorcee envy-green. Multiply by ten and you have, approximately, the portraits of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos that Sterling Seagrave paints in this merciless account of the Filipino dictator's rise and fall...
Thompson ran for City Council in 1979 with an endorsement from the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). At that time, he told the Cambridge Chronicle, "I favor rent control and I'm against condominium conversion." But he qualified his position, adding, "I will seek to reform the procedures of the rent control board...
...Americans who take their civic obligations seriously, the choice that presents itself next Tuesday is inescapable. There will be no might-have-beens or none-of-the-aboves on the ballot. The primaries, polls and prognostications are merely an endless exhibition season; this is the one moment in four years that actually counts in the standings. Bush or Dukakis? Nothing less and, alas, nothing more...