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Fajardo, who has been observing at Madison Park High School in the Boston neighborhood of Roxbury, has been concentrating on the particular difficulties of teaching at an inner city high school...
...only did he fill to overflowing Madison Square Garden and the Convention Center in Washington, D.C., but he also illicited vocal approval from guests at Cruse's Harvard lecture last fall and at last weekend's colloquium when his name was mentioned in presentation or debate...
...University of Minnesota basketball team had won a squeaker on the road, relying on a last-second shot to beat Big Ten Conference Rival Wisconsin, 67-65, in Madison. But after the game the celebrating apparently got out of hand. Three players were arrested on charges of raping an 18-year-old woman who had been enticed back to their hotel from a party. A shaken University President Kenneth Keller ordered the Golden Gophers to forfeit their next game and said he was considering canceling the team's entire remaining schedule. The forfeiture, the first of its kind...
...many cities, private firms work in conjunction with government agencies to provide services. Madison, Wis., retains its own fire department but pays a company to provide fire protection at its airport. That saves the city the expense of training fire fighters in the special skills needed to cope with air crashes...
...GROUPS IN American politics today come closer to Madison's definition of "faction" than political action committees (PACs). Created as a result of a federal election law reform, PACs have steadily--and ironically--mushroomed into a powerful tool for influencing legislation. And as the PACs have grown, so too have the number of congressmen who know how to transform skillfully the groups' ready and generous campaign contributions into repeated electoral victories...