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...remember the Tuesday before our trip [to Norfolk] we were both pulling all-nighters to try to finish papers, and even though hers was longer, she was the one who was comforting me," Weiss said...
Craig, 18, was taking a break from exams at her family's home in Norfolk, Conn., along with three of her Harvard friends when she was struck...
...private memorial service for family members was held last Tuesday, and a public service was conducted last Friday in Norfolk...
Young Park Elementary occupies a well-kept building set among the barracks-like structures of Norfolk's Young Terrace public housing project. Of its 341 students, 98% are black and 94% are poor enough to qualify for the free-lunch program. This year so far, the parents or guardians of 60 to 70 kids have joined the PTA. "Some of the children arrive at school not knowing their full name; they just know their nickname," says principal Ruby Greer, who has managed to improve test scores and attendance. "They don't know how to hold a pencil or a book...
...resegregation, has been writing vividly about social issues since, at 19, he penned The Strawberry Statement, a best-selling account of Columbia University's 1968 student strike against the Vietnam War. A TIME contributor since last October, Kunen spent many hours visiting classrooms in Kansas City, Missouri, and Norfolk, Virginia, observing students and teachers wrestling with the problems posed by separate but unequal education. But whomever he talked to, from black nationalists to advocates of magnet schools to staunch integrationists, he discovered a common goal that transcended race. "I found," he says, "that all parents, black and white, wanted...