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...general. It turned out that his great-great-great-grandfather had been an admirer, not a relative, of Lee's. In fact, as he went back, Stokes found his first American ancestors were indentured servants. "We came to America basically as white slaves," he says, with a laugh. Lately, Harold Brooks-Baker--head of Burke's Peerage, the British company that does genealogical searches--sees a change. People are less obsessed with nobility and more with the dramatic. "If their ancestor was a horse thief, all the better," he says. Care to chat about family skeletons? The International Black Sheep...
...that bike for a grander trip than the trek from Currier to Johnston Gate. Bike Boston takes a comprehensive look at scenic Harold Parker State Forest, Dogtown and Gilbert Hills State Forest. Info includes trail directions, descriptions, hazards and more...
Three years ago, Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health, was announced as the principal speaker at Harvard's 345th Commencement. After asking "Harold who?," spoiled Harvard students, accustomed to being addressed by heads of state and Nobel laureates, questioned the selection of a bio medical researcher as the featured guest at their graduation. Poor Dr. Varmus was ridiculed in campus publications; his likeness even made a regular appearance in a student comic strip in this newspaper...
Chicago's school-reform movement has been gaining momentum for more than a decade. The late Mayor Harold Washington began planting the seeds of reform in the mid-1980s, but it wasn't until 1988 that the Illinois legislature passed a school-reform act that parceled authority to newly elected boards for each public school and granted them power to hire and fire principals. Even that reform movement didn't gain significant traction until 1995, when state Republicans turned control over to Daley. "Everybody knew things had to change, but they felt powerless to do anything about it," Daley says...
Recent Commencement speakers include MaryRobinson, U.N High Commissioner for Human Rightsand former President of Ireland, U.S. Secretary ofState Madeleine K. Albright, Harold Varmus,director of the National Institutes of Health,Vaclav Havel, president of the Czech Republic, andVice President Al Gore...