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Lexington, Mass., is nearly country, nearly rich and near enough to Boston to attract a more or less upwardly mobile mix of residents: native Yankees, middle-management families from companies such as Raytheon and Polaroid, intellectuals from M.I.T. and Harvard. "You have the impression that everyone in Lexington has a fireplace in his bedroom," says one high school senior. The corollary illusion is that every house contains a happy, intact family. Yet an estimated 30% (no one knows for sure) of the students in Lexington's school system have suffered the effects of divorce. Despite the fact that divorce...
Even before the last bodies had been found, the detective story began. Federal investigators started poking through the smoldering wreckage of the DC-10 in the flame-seared field near Chicago's O'Hare Airport, collecting pieces of metal that colleagues later examined under electron microscopes. Their findings last week were enough to chill the most seasoned air traveler: the key elements that destroyed American Airlines Flight 191 and killed 274 people appeared to be a bolt 3 in. long and ⅜ in. in diameter, and a cracked metal plate. Both were parts of the pylon assembly under...
...disputes in others. Several Mather House delegates contested the results of the House's elections, charging that the Mather House Committee used an unconstitutional "preferential" balloting system similar to the system used in Cambridge City Council elections. Several candidates in Currier House claimed that other candidates were loitering near the ballot boxes soliciting votes. Lowell House's ballots were misprinted, and the Kirkland House elections were delayed more than a week to allow time for more nominations...
Lodge agrees, saying, "There should be a specific ethics course at the school. There's nowhere near enough emphasis on ethics. But ethical questions should also permeate every course, whether it's marketing or advertising. Some ethical problems have to be dealt with in the context in which they come...
Donald Woods, exiled South African journalist, will probably top off his year as a Nieman fellow with a sheepskin. Ingmar Bergman or Orson Welles, past near-misses for the Norton Lectures, may represent the cinematic world on the honorary list...