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...expelled and later convicted in Massachusetts state court. But for fear of bad publicity, various administrators at the Medical School wrote up the story in the form of an unsigned and unbelievable-sounding e-mail message, which they then circulated to several thousand randomly-selected America Online and university domain-name addresses nationwide. The story lives on today only as legend...
Roger O'Sullivan, president of the Cambridge Teachers Association, said the "Ask A Teacher" campaign attempted to bring the question of school reform into the domain of informed teachers. It was launched partly in response to Gov. A. Paul Cellucci's recently introduced legislation to test veteran teachers and to fire those who cannot pass...
...leader Trent Lott, who only two weeks ago was flogging the 10% cut at a town-hall meeting in Michigan, had a change of heart, saying last week that he was happy that tax relief was being debated at all. A plan more likely to emerge from Lott's domain is being drawn up by Senate budget boss Pete Domenici, a cautious deficit hawk who wants to postpone tax cuts until surpluses grow much larger. New Jersey Democrat Robert Torricelli is proposing yet another idea: raise the amount of income subject to the 15% minimum rate and exempt...
...Hollywood, history has always been what it likes to call "underlying material," a lode of legend, conveniently located in the public domain, from which it can quarry inspirational tales of resistance to tyranny, redemption from injustice. From The Life of Emile Zola to Braveheart, audiences bedeviled by the ambiguities of modern life have derived moral instruction and emotional uplift from these transformations of the complex past into simple, glowing metaphorical guides to right behavior...
...wouldn't rule out eminent domain," she said...