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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Faithful to his prediction, Wilder had clambered onto the statewide leadership ladder with his election as Lieutenant Governor in 1985. In contrast to Jackson's often divisive politics of prophecy, Wilder was now the candidate of consensus progress and a united Democratic Party. If successful, he would become the model for future black crossover politicians who could triumph in places like Virginia, where the electorate was 80% white...
TRACY CHAPMAN: CROSSROADS (Elektra). The follow-up to her smash debut album in 1988 is . . . well, just like the first. Chapman's voice stays strong, her music soft, her message angry and often oppressively earnest. Straightforward and worthy but generally without excitement...
School psychologists, most of whom are trained in learning disabilities or family problems, often summon specialists to deal with students' "post- traumatic stress syndrome." Teachers and parents, experts say, need to bring fears immediately to the surface after a shooting or other violent episode and allow younger students in particular to act out and talk out the horrors they experienced. Adults are shaken as well. At the Greenwood, S.C., school, Principal Eleanor Rice lost 25 lbs. in the months after a 19-year-old man barged in, shooting at random, killed two pupils and wounded nine other people...
...Minority Students Alliance (MSA) report documents, however, these chairpersons are often hostile to the active recruitment of women and minority scholars...
...syllabus sounds promising, but the lectures often cannot live up to their billings. Certainly, Professor Coles' literary expertise is impressive and his timely anecdotes are entertaining. He is a fluent, engaging speaker, completely at ease talking about his favorite authors and their works. Problems arise, however, as soon as we discover the assumptions underlying his twice-weekly monologues...