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With the lead whittled to only four seats, the Crimson began to move out again and established what looked to be a comfortable margin for victory. Unfortunately, with 15 strokes to go in the race, sophomore Peter Morgan's blade flicked into the water and caught the crab that resulted in the sudden slow down...
...wand a little," purred the orchestra conductor in Sturges' Unfaithfully Yours, "and out comes the music." For five glorious years, 1940-44, Sturges waved his wand and out came words and pictures. Nothing but Hollywood's most distinctive satires: The Lady Eve, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek. So rent the movies. Don't read the book...
...vein first excavated by the journalist George S. Schuyler during the 1940s: the scold posing as a voice of intellectual integrity. A self-proclaimed defector from the black nationalist excesses that he blames for the collapse of the civil rights struggle, Crouch likens himself to the freebooter Henry Morgan, "who sent many of his former pirate buddies to the gallows, certain that they deserved what they got." In this collection of essays and reviews, however, the former Village Voice staff writer too often allows his insights into the self-victimization that has come to dominate the black, women...
...Morgan Park is one of a handful of schools that have been shaken by turmoil in recent weeks after principals were ousted by local councils. The dismissals were the first big test of a revolutionary decentralization scheme launched last fall by the city of Chicago. Under the plan, locally elected councils -- composed of six parents, two community residents, two teachers and an ex- officio member, the principal -- were put in charge of each of Chicago's 541 public schools. The aim was to shift authority from the city's bloated board of education to local neighborhoods. But giving parents...
...board of education has promised help but has been slow to deliver it, giving rise to charges that the central bureaucracy is not committed to change. "The concept is real good, but they have set us up to fail," says Leroy Johnson, whose daughter is a ninth-grader at Morgan Park High School...