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Harvard Associate Vice President for State and Community Affairs Jacqueline A. O'Neill said yesterday that "everybody on the state level agrees" about the need for affordable housing...
...have to renew the support on the federal level that has disappeared on account of Reagan's federalism. Can [the bill] get funded in this climate of budget cutting and looming deficit? I do not know, but it sounds like a wonderful idea," O'Neill said...
...most dangerous schools into what District Superintendent Charles Gibbons calls an "absolute jewel," began with this set of rules: "In class on time; no hats; no Walkman in school; a student roaming the corridors without a pass is written up immediately and given a warning." His neighbor, Principal O'Neill at Lewenberg, set up equally simple standards. "The first order was to maintain control of the hallways, so we put in quiet, single- filing lines. Students go to their lockers at the beginning of the day. An assignment left in a locker is a missed assignment. Bathroom passes are issued...
...Lewenberg in Boston, Principal O'Neill has designed, as a colorful celebration of reading achievements, a twin-tailed Chinese dragon stretching across the entrance to the school's two wings. Students begin each day of the year by reading aloud. And every afternoon, everyone in the school -- including secretaries, administrators, security aides and teachers -- ends the day by reading silently. Anyone who finishes a novel gets to add a piece of paper to the dragon's tail, with the title of the book and the reader's name. With five months left in the school year, the dragon already stretches...
...Miller's controversial reputation would suggest, they will probably be classics with a twist. He has reset an Italian opera in gangster territory, for example, and reimagined O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night as caustic tragicomedy rather than lugubrious apocalypse. Andromache is the first offering of a seven-play season, of which Miller will direct five. With characteristic confidence in his polymathic perversity, he has assigned himself an absurdist British comedy, N.F. Simpson's One Way Pendulum; a Jacobean tragedy, Bussy D'Ambois; a Leonard Bernstein musical, Candide, which Miller says "will have more flavor...