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...Joel's sons had their father declared non compos mentis. Those middle-aged lawyer sons were able to achieve this even though a host of Mr. Joel's lifelong friends testified, under oath, either that Mr. Joel Manning was perfectly sane or at least, as one of his oldest and most trusted friends phrased it, 'as sane as he had ever been.' " Taylor has always been able to portray the dignity in his characters, particularly when they are in the act of making fools of themselves. It may be ludicrous for a grown man still to mourn a childhood move...
Okay, so the analogy between the Lord Almighty and Harvard President Derek C. Bok isn't all that precise. But Bok is an important guy. As the head of the oldest and most prestigious university in the country, he is the de facto leader of American higher education. When he talks about the issues facing America's colleges, people listen...
...nation's oldest university took time out at the beginning of the month to celebrate its 350-year history. The four-day, multi-million dollar extravaganza lit up the campus, and 40,000 alumni revelers painted the town crimson...
...self-styled scrapper with the sturdy perseverance of a tugboat. She sharply turns aside comments that she does not "look senatorial." Says the candidate: "A lot of Americans, black or white or female, are always told that they don't look the part. It's one of the oldest code words...
Boston's public school system is the oldest in the nation, and among the most troubled. In a city of some 570,000 people, public-school enrollment has dropped from 93,000 in 1973 to only 59,000 today, in part because of the flight of white students to private and parochial schools after court-ordered busing began in the mid-1970s. In the high schools, the dropout rate has reached 43%. Only 3,000 seniors graduate each year...