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...York, schools chief Rudy Crew was ousted in December, following a tussle with Mayor Rudy Giuliani over Crew's resistance to an experimental voucher plan and his public reluctance to commit quickly to a renewal of his contract. Hired in 1995 to run a system facing its 10th chancellor in 12 years, Crew says now, "I knew no one survives in this job very long." In his last year, his relationship with the mayor and the school board deteriorated. Giuliani's growing sense that Crew "should be more willing to destroy the system that he runs" and Crew's political...
...think the commitment to the cause, and the means of affecting the cause differs as much as people do. Skills vary from teaching to public interest law to elected office. The key is getting people to commit lives to affect society," Pan says...
...While Harvard students have shown themselves willing to work in their communities and with the impoverished, they are hesitant to commit to serving their nation...
...Bradley has displayed a willingness to try out new ways of improving our public schools. In addition, recognizing the implications of our current teacher shortage, Bradley has vowed to forgive student loans for 60,000 college students, high-school graduates and mid-career professionals who certify as teachers and commit to serving in poor urban or rural schools...
...reasons that are somewhat understandable and forgivable, somewhat not. Writers tend to live in dank, airless cells of self-recrimination. Nothing is ever as good as it should be, and sometimes it is plain awful. Realizing what they have done, they hate themselves, frequently showing excellent judgment, and commit murder instead of suicide...