Word: lunde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Diane Lund, assistant professor at the Law School, and Regina Healey, instructor at the Radcliffe Institute, who in 1971 drafted Chapter 622 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, explained that the Massachusetts Board of Education is still considering how to enforce Chapter 622, which prohibits discrimination in public schools on the basis...
...took a long time for the state to realize that it had a responsibility to implement change. We're looking for some self-executing way of implementing this law. One would like to see the school themselves change," Lund said...
...good literary disease. It offers a succession of intensifying crises, separated by weeks or months of remission during which the sufferer appears to be totally healthy and timid hopes of a permanent cure are raised. Surefire theater, in short. Such thoughts cannot be entirely dismissed, though Eric Lund's story must be considered on its own merits. When Lund's leukemia was diagnosed, he was a fairly ordinary 17-year-old Connecticut boy of the now apparently rare sort called "normal": tall, blond, outwardly untroubled, a fine soccer player. He was waiting for summer vacation...
Part of what made Lund so extraordinary was his driving vitality. He missed college that first year, but when drugs brought him to his first period of remission, he began to slog his wasted body through an incredible training regime, running ten to 20 miles a day, never doubting that he could enter the university and make the team. He did both. The disease hung on. Remissions were achieved each successive time by a more dangerous and exhausting use of drugs. With each reprieve, Lund began running again, rebuilding weight and stamina. By his junior year he was a soccer...
...died horribly. Leukemia books all end that way. But each story of a life ends with a death. What Eric Lund's mother says in this book, with much courage and dignity of her own, is that Eric lived a lifetime. The reader turns the last page hoping he will never see another book about leukemia but grateful for this one. ∙John Skow