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...show's most thrilling back-to-the-future revelations are the posters and advertisements and magazine layouts from the '30s, '40s and '50s that look contemporary. Lester Beall's Depression-era posters for the Rural Electrification Administration are spare and abstract and unsentimental, the perfect brainy New Deal agitprop. Herbert Bayer's virtuoso, typography-driven ads for the Container Corp. of America from the '50s and '60s look like avant- garde work from the late...
...city activist Lester P. Lee, Jr., who is heading his own campaign for an African sister city, said that his first choice is Akwa, Nigeria. Lee said that he favors establishing a city in the Akwa region because many Black Americans have historical roots in the area...
Second, your story stated that Lester P. Lee, Jr. "ran" my 1988 campaign. This is incorrect. Lee was one of a number of people in the district who played a role in my victory, but my campaign was run by my campaign manager, Francis Stone...
...find it curious that your reporter relied heavily on criticisms by two people who aren't even registered Democrats. Glenn Koocher, who likes to foster controversy for his local cable television program, is a Republican. Lester Lee is an Independent, who only first registered to vote in Cambridge five years ago--when he was well into his 30s--even though he is a native Cantabridgian...
...given subject and design a test for it. That still leaves room for states and school districts to determine how material is taught. Besides, local control has hardly proved to be a miracle drug for improving educational levels. "Local school districts don't have incentives to work hard," says Lester Thurow, dean of M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management. "I'm not worried about too much authority. I worry about too little...