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Peterkin took office in the wake of a bitter political battle that resulted in the firing of his predecessor, William Lannon, and School Committee members said he has unified the normally polarized board. Like the City Council, the School Committee has long been a battleground between the liberal Cambridge Civic Association and the more conservative, neighborhood-oriented Independents...
...know I have to be on my toes to keep everything running smoothly," says Richard J. Lannon '86, one of Leverett House's two grill managers. "Our personnel bends over backwards to do a good job. The girls [who work at the grill] dress up on Wednesday nights. It helps bring in more business," he says...
Netting about $1300 a week, the Leverett House grill pays its employees $5 an hour. "We lost money for three straight weeks during midterms, but generally we make a profit," Lannon says...
THROUGHOUT THE CAMPAIGN, candidates for the Cambridge School Committee have agreed on one important point: the city's school system has quieted down since the controversial firing of Superintendent William C. Lannon two years ago. In fact, the selection of an outstanding administrator to replace Lannon proves that when the School Committee wants to, it can overcome internal squabbles and needless delays to implement changes for local schoolchildren...
Leverett's Lannon praised his defense's effort: "We knew they had two good athletes [Fletcher and running back Kermit Alexander] who are very fast, so I made sure our defensive ends stayed outside. They contained well. We set the tempo of the game in the first series, and controlled it from then...