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...lead to the Oval Office, it makes a certain amount of tactical sense. Blacks have been trooping to voting booths in growing numbers, making them a potent factor in the choice of the next President. The new clout was manifest in the recent wins of Harold Washington in the Chicago mayoral race and W. Wilson Goode in the Philadelphia Democratic mayoral primary. These heady successes have spurred blacks, who vote Democratic 9 to 1 and routinely represent from 20% to 25% of the Democratic bloc in national elections, to demand more say. "Blacks have voted for whites ever since...
Last week the committee picked Song of Chicago Alive by Guitarist Jeff Jacobs, 30, as the best of the 2,017 entries. Jacobs called the tune "simple, adaptable." New Chicago Mayor Harold Washington rejected it, calling it slow and none too spunky. Now Jacobs is not getting the prize money, and the weary committee must reopen the competition. Said Essee Kupcinet, head of the committee: "I can't face listening to another song." Washington said he prefers a lyric filled with the names of famous Chicagoans. Right on, mayor. For starters...
...BEEN a long wait for the people at National Lampoon since their first and only movie success Animal House. And it has been a while since Saturday Night Live alumnus Chevy Chase warmed America's cockles in "Foul Play." These probably explain why Chase and director Harold Ramis (of Stripes fame) have appeared on every talk show in the country at least twice in the last month, and why the Lampoon magazine wasted an entire issue to promote this comedy...
Silva said that the Seymour Society will help host Chicago Mayor Harold Washington, who is visiting Boston this Sunday...
...whole population to a standard inconceivable in the U.S." Also inconceivable in the U.S., however, is the degree of centralization. All standards and textbook approvals, as well as major funding, come from the national government. "Japan is interested in forming a national culture," says Columbia Comparative Education Professor Harold Noah. This is not solely the result of Japan's homogeneity and island isolation. Britain, for example, did not pursue a single national vision. Instead it sought to develop individual liberty and built a decentralized education system to foster that value. So did the U.S., on a larger scale. Japan...