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...Harvey Milk story needs little Hollywood embellishment; it's already the perfect outsider fable. A Manhattan investment banker raised on Long Island, Milk arrived in San Francisco in the early '70s. He opened Castro Camera in the run-down Castro district, which was fast becoming an enclave for the not-yet-outspoken gay culture. With the aid of an unlikely ally, the Teamsters, he organized a boycott of Coors Beer, which at the time refused to hire gays. After three losing runs for a city supervisor seat, he won in 1977, and a year later he helped defeat Proposition...
...last fall, tired of this absurdity, Rhodes e-mailed Michelle Rhee, the new, bold-talking chancellor running the District of Columbia Public Schools system. His teacher had given him the address, which was on the chancellor's home page. He was nervous when he hit SEND, but the words were reasonable. "Computers are slowly becoming something that we use every day," he wrote. "And learning how to use them is a major factor in our lives. So I'm just bringing this to your attention." He didn't expect to hear back. Rhee answered the same...
Rhee took over Anacostia High and the district's 143 other schools in June 2007, when Mayor Adrian Fenty named her chancellor. Her appointment stunned the city. Rhee, then 37, had no experience running a school, let alone a district with 46,000 students that ranks last in math among 11 urban school systems. When Fenty called her, she was running a nonprofit called the New Teacher Project, which helps schools recruit good teachers. Most problematic of all, Rhee is not from Washington. She is from Ohio, and she is Korean American in a majority-African-American city...
...club. State Senator Dianne Wilkerson was arrested on Oct. 28 for allegedly accepting bribes exceeding $20,000 in return for her introducing legislation in the State Senate. First elected to the Boston City Council in 1999, Turner is currently in his fifth two-year term as a councilor for District 7, which includes Roxbury, Lower Roxbury and parts of Dorchester, Fenway, and the South End. After graduating from Harvard, Turner served as a community organizer and a civil rights activist for over 40 years, according to the Boston city government’s Web site. Turner could not be reached...
...from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Federal Hall (6 Wall Street, New York City), with costumed re-enactors and fife and drum music, as well as a lecture by New York historian Barnet Schecter at 11 a.m. So if you're doing business in Manhattan's Financial District, take a detour to Federal Hall or to Trinity Church (Broadway and Wall Street, New York City), where there will be a 12 p.m. service in memory of the freedom-fighting soldiers. See the NPS site for details...