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...many things as you possibly can, so maybe we can get her a boyfriend." He loves practical jokes. Sheldon Leonard, the producer who gave Cosby his first TV role on I Spy, chuckles at the memory of his arrival last year at the chic Grand Hotel du Cap on the French Riviera, where he was to meet Cosby, who vacations there each summer. Checking into his room, Leonard ordered the bellman, who had his head ducked down, to put away the luggage. The distinctly un-French reply: ! "Yassuh, boss. I be puttin' it up." It was Cosby in the bellman...
...system dominated for some 30 years by William Schaefer, Baltimore's respected former white mayor, who was elected Governor of Maryland last November. Instead, Schmoke, a Rhodes scholar, is out of Yale, Harvard Law School and Oxford. Last week he defeated a black politician from the old school, Clarence ("Du") Burns, 69, who had climbed through the ranks to become city council president and Schaefer's interim replacement as mayor. Having won the primary in a city where 88% of the voters are Democrats, Schmoke next month will almost certainly become the first black to be elected mayor of Baltimore...
...Washington, control what is taught in schools and how well. A President can exhort, encourage, prod and deplore, and to some extent use federal aid or its denial to effect changes. But a President Biden could not order school districts to lengthen the class year, nor could a President du Pont force them to adopt his "universal choice" plan...
Some of the ideas that the candidates have proposed are open to serious objection. Gephardt's plan to retarget federal aid toward the fastest- improving schools risks helping good districts to become better while leaving the poor ones to deteriorate even further. Du Pont's "universal choice" goes too far even for some Republicans who accept the principle of inducing competition among schools. Kemp charged that du Pont's plan might cost the Federal Government as much as $25 billion; he promotes choice among public schools only within a given district. But whatever the merits or demerits of the specific...
However familiar such conflicts may seem to millions of working couples, they rarely used to crop up in politics. This year is different. Elizabeth Dole, Hattie Babbitt, Jeanne Simon and Elise du Pont are all lawyers. Jill Biden and Kitty Dukakis both teach. Tipper Gore is a published author. Dole, whom some see as a future presidential contender in her own right, has the most vexing dilemma of all. "I think there is a sense that her choice will send a signal," says Republican Pollster Linda Duvall. "Until now, we've never seen a situation where the wife is just...