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Ackermann speaks emotionally of the inhumane treatment of special needs children in Massachusetts' institutions. And she speaks with eyewitness experience gained while serving as a delegate to the Commonwealth's Inter-Agency Planning Group on Children with Special Needs...
...reason for this apparent schizophrenia is simple: Tsongas has approved cuts that did not affect Massachusetts jobs, but kept hands off programs that provide jobs for residents of the Commonwealth--especially residents of the Fifth District...
...Secretary of Defense's restatement of the U.S. military posture before the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco. Brown seemed determined to convince his audience-both in the U.S. and in Moscow-that the U.S. was still superior to the Soviets militarily, without appearing to sound bellicose and threatening. "There is no doubt in my mind," he said, "that the U.S. is the most powerful country in the world." He admitted "concern" about "vulnerabilities" in NATO, but said he felt the U.S. could "outthink, out-design and outperform the Soviets with the resources we have and the steady increases...
Much the same thing happened to James Cramer, a sociologist at the Georgetown University Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure. Cramer was hired for a one-year teaching job at Virginia Commonwealth University in 1973 and promised that he would be considered for a permanent job. But the university, under pressure from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, created a program designed to give hiring preference to women and minorities, and Cramer did not get the job. He sued-not to get a job, but to test the principle of exclusion by sex. Federal District Judge D. Dortch Warriner...
...Commonwealth of Massachusetts this week cleared a Harvard student of charges filed against him stemming from his involvement with Bill Dillon and Co., a student-run investment firm the state closed down earlier this month...