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...have all the more reason to continue working together to end the discriminatory U.S. policy, so that we can bring International AIDS Conferences back to this country, which have contributed so much and has suffered so much from this pandemic," says Jonathan M. Mann '69, one of the conference organizers and director of the Institute's International AIDS Center...
...flurry of activity produced other promising signs. Encouraging communiques issued by two groups of kidnappers confirmed for the first time since his abduction in May 1989 that Briton Jack Mann is still alive. Reuters quoted an unidentified official in Beirut as saying an American and a Briton, possibly envoy Terry Waite, would be released "for certain" within a week. That sounded as though the end game may now be under way in earnest. But nothing on the Middle East chessboard is for certain...
...sheikh also said that he couldn't predict the nationality of the next hostage freed. Speculation has focused on Jack Mann, a 77-year-old former Royal Air Force pilot who has been missing for two years...
...Horace Mann...
...noble the dream, how ignoble the modern reality. Mann's crowning achievement was the 19th century American common school, a place where children from all backgrounds could nurture democracy through a shared educational experience. Not very long ago, that vision seemed an eternal verity, enshrined in the public-school system. But over the past generation, the balance wheel of the social machinery began to wobble badly. American schools today, as any parent knows, are anything but equal. And education, rather than bringing students together, has become a social dividing line, separating children rich with choices in life from those doomed...