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Education Secretary Terrell H. Bell announced the NIE's five-year contract with Harvard yesterday. The NIE is the research arm of the Department of Education...
...institute's founding is a response to national concern over public education, and math and science training in particular, said Alan Wilson, deputy director of the National Institute of Education (NIE), yesterday...
Harvard was selected for the project over MIT and Bank Street College in New York Although the University's proposal was the most expensive, the NIE felt Harvard had superior technological facilities and better contact with local school systems, Wilson explained...
Those were words he lived by to the end. His motto, in Polish, was "Nie dam sie" (I shall never give in), and he never did. "Music is not a hobby, not even a passion with me," he once said. "Music is me. I think I can say no man has lived his life more fully than I have. My life is made. If I die today, still, I've had it. Nobody can say I've been deprived of anything." Of some men it is said that they lived for their art; Rubinstein's life...
...obscure, knew that young reporters would go over their lives like flesh-eating birds. That knowledge has served to deplete the ranks of men and women willing to serve in government. Watergate helped to destroy the boundary between public and private life. Says University of Chicago Political Scientist Norman Nie: "Fear of exposure in their personal, financial, social and emotional lives is going to discourage competent people from going into government...