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...these last three years, few threesomes have been more responsible for bringing the Crimson squad out of the depths of despair and into the national limelight...
...still yell "Run, Jesse, run!" and he still acts as if that is precisely what he has in mind. But Jesse Jackson, who had planned to announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination last month, is finding that a run at the presidency cannot be fueled by ego and limelight alone. Clergymen this summer optimistically promised that $10 million could be raised for Jackson from the nation's network of black churches. But that plan was opposed by the Rev. T.J. Jemison, leader of the powerful National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc., who opposes mixing politics and religion. So Jackson...
Today, before leaping at every scheme thrown out for public schools, educators and policy makers need a lasting and cohesive plan to institutionalize community support for community schools. Though education hovers in the political limelight now, history shows that such tides of interest flow sporadically, perhaps rolling back after the next election. Local groups should capture current interest and preserve it--a community united around education might just find some common ground on other issues as well...
After leaving the White House in February of 1964. Sorensen went to the comparative quiet of Leverett House to write his memories on the presidency of John F. Kennedy 40, Resuming his New York law practice. Soirensen stayed out of the political limelight until he became involved in the McGovern campaign...
Even while he researched solutions to the problems confronting the Philippines, he tired to avoid the political limelight. "He understood the meaning of a university," said Lucian Pye, director of the international fellows program at MIT. "He did not use [his academic position] to denounce the government...