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...risk of falling behind grade level. At 22 she became the program's executive director, and turned what was a mostly mushy, feel-good enterprise into one with real instructional rigor. She also taught high school history, unpaid, at a nearby prep school. This year Henry, 28, graduated from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management. But when she began looking for a job in Chicago, she faced a harsh reality: to become a principal she would need six years of experience in a Chicago public school, and she had no teaching or administrative credential. At job interviews, school administrators...
Bright’s car hit sand and flipped while he was driving Tuesday in the northwestern Namibian state of Khorixas. He suffered lacerations to the head, right arm and left hand in the accident...
...March, NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue advised the Saints to consider turning the club into a regional team, a concept that several NFL teams have used successfully. A move to Mississippi could expand the team's marketing efforts to southern Alabama and Georgia and northwestern Florida in addition to Louisiana and Mississippi, where most of the Saints fans are now located...
...Laura Z. Hobson, who prodded the public conscience with her 1947 novel about anti-Semitism, "Gentlemen's Agreement," complained that "you cannot be a bigot and be lovable." Lear replied that bigotry was most common and most insidious when it occurred in otherwise lovable people. Since then, Northwestern University Sociologist Charles Moskos has supported both the Bunkers and the de-Bunkers by arguing that "Family's" humor cuts two ways: "It is a cheap way for tolerant uppermiddle-class liberals to escape their own prejudices while the bigots get their views reinforced." Lear concedes that the humorous treatment of bigotry...
...Anthony Porter, a mentally ill man who was just two days away from execution when the real killer was persuaded to confess—not by prosecutors, but by a private investigator working with journalism students at Northwestern University...