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BORN: April 29, 1950, Gladwin EDUCATION: Michigan State U, B.A., 1972, M.S.W., 1975 FAMILY: Divorced; two children RELIGION: United Methodist MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Management consultant POLITICAL CAREER: Ingham County Commissioner, 1975-78; Michigan House, 1979-91, Senate, 1991-95 ADDRESS: P.O. Box 4945, East Lansing...
...April 1987 the tranquillity of Gladwin Avenue, in the Queens section of New York City, was shattered when a fire erupted in a two-story house that the city had rented to use as a foster home. Today five respected citizens who live on the block each face up to 25 years in prison if they are convicted of arson. "These are nice middle-class people, not hoodlums," says Defense Lawyer Jacob Evseroff...
...Gladwin Avenue is white. The foster children and the workers who care for them are black. Local residents, many of whom joined in a lawsuit against the home, fretted about falling property values; others argued that the babies' visiting relatives might commit crimes. "They don't belong here," says Mary Meyer, a retired waitress. "The city pushed this down our throats." That sense of alienation was accentuated by the city's failure to hold public hearings or educate the neighborhood about its plans. "It's a racial issue, but it's also a political issue, an economic issue, a class...
...Crimson then returned to dry land for a clambake, cornbroil, and "Fun-in-the-Woods" session. The team was also treated to a seminar on the more abstruse aspects of salt-water fishing by icythyologist Aubrey Gladwin, who lives nearby in Herring Cove, Nova Scotia...
Fell even defends other discredited writers. He praises the work of Harold Gladwin, who speculated that wayward members of Alexander the Great's fleet populated various parts of the Pacific. Fell points out that Gladwin's book, Men Out of Asia, is even required reading in some Harvard courses. However, Stephen Williams, Peabody Professor of American Archeology and Ethnology, says that hardly means Gladwin's work is endorsed by archeologists at Harvard. The situation is roughly analogous to a Marxist economics professor including readings from Milton Friedman in his course to offer a contrast in methodology...