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...Harold Howe, professor of Education at the Graduate school of Education, will serve on the board of trustees with other experts and members of contributing companies, Schiffer said...
...often been awesome. For example, four students from the Negro Agriculture and Technological College in Greensboro, N.C., started the active civil rights movement in the 1960s by staging a sit-in at a local variety store. Twenty years later, 6000 students hit the streets on election day to push Harold Washington on to a victory with national significance...
Several faculty members have served with groups formulating or advocating policies in education. Harold Howe II has served with North Carolina Governor James Hunt's educational task force and with David Hamburg's Carnegie Corporation working group on educational policy. Francis Keppel continues his efforts nationally on behalf of student aid policy. I have been a member of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Federal Education Policy, and of the National Science Board Commission on Pre-Collegiate Mathematics, Science and Technology Education...
...chances of becoming mayor, however, are not good, even though he is a far more articulate, rousing speaker than Flynn. To win he would need to sweep the black vote again and pick up at least 30% of the city's white vote, which is 12% more than Harold Washington took when he won the mayoral race in Chicago. Flynn, meanwhile, is expected to attract the bulk of Finnegan's votes as well as maintain his overwhelming support among fellow working-class Irish Americans in neighborhoods like his South Boston home district...
...Through his early years he was the middle-class Everyman, shuffling toward archetype with good will and capacious common sense. But as he aged, his characters turned imperious and, in spite of their power, ineffectual. In David Storey's Home (1970), John Osborne's West of Suez (1971) and Harold Pinter's No Man's Land (1975) and in the films The Heiress (1950) and Long Day's Journey into Night (1962), Richardson found his ideal role: as the haughty burgher whose tragic flaw lies in realizing too late that he is not quite a tragic figure. Though he never...