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Some opponents of tenure argue that the collective-bargaining process is the root problem. Peter Greer, on leave as dean of Boston University's School of Education and now acting superintendent of schools in Chelsea, Mass., the troubled system that the university agreed to manage two years ago, says the "tyranny" of collective bargaining dooms any school-reform effort. Greer is currently being sued by Chelsea teachers for hiring four untenured teachers over tenured ones for a program to prevent high school dropouts...
Before Jerome Greer was invited to relocate from St. Louis and take a job as principal of Irving elementary school in Dubuque, Iowa, the personnel director issued a word of caution: no one in the city had the faintest idea how to cut his hair. "This is a white person's town," says Greer, who took the job last July but still gets his hair cut in St. Louis. "On my first day at school, a kid asked me whether I was Bill Cosby...
Many therapists are cross-fertilizers, picking up bits of different disciplines. Greer Jonas does reflexology with some aromatherapy thrown in; she is also licensed for Swedish massage. Jonas works in her clean, well- lighted apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Hanging crystals tinkle before an open window. Brown and blue bottles of lavender, rosemary and rose essence exude their fragrances. Lavender relaxes the client, Jonas advises. Rosemary "breaks up fibrous tissue" when massaged into a woman's breasts. "The body holds a lot of memories," she says. "You touch an area, and sometimes the person starts to cry." Jonas...
...four-member audience present at the start on Saturday, however, was rapt. Greer I. Gilman, who works at the Widener Library Preservation Department, was among those witnessing the start of the reading. Greer, who brought along her own dog-eared copy of the "obscure and very attractive book," said she appreciated Nash's "passion and his fanatic heart...
...Greer M. Hersch...