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METCO was established in 1963 by black parents and educators from the Boston area. It is the oldest large-scale transfer program of inner city students to suburban high schools and is extremely popular, with a waiting list that goes into the thousands...
...McDaniel, the then-oldest Harvard alumnus, died...
...last week, Steve. On Monday, AOL astonished the computer and media world with the news that it will swallow CompuServe, the nation's oldest online service, and its 2.6 million members. As part of the deal, AOL sealed a long-term pact with WorldCom, a telephone company based in Jackson, Miss., with scads of capacity, that will help AOL lock in access to phone lines at low rates for the next five years--and probably boost profits. In the three-way agreement, WorldCom bought CompuServe and then handed AOL the online company's 2.6 million subscribers in exchange...
Larry Cook (Jason Robards) has been farming his thousand acres so long and so well that his stature within his Iowa community is almost monarchical. "No one within 50 miles ever made any decision without consulting Daddy," says his oldest daughter Ginny (Jessica Lange), a modest and irresolute woman who has always lived under her father's thumb; at age 36, she still walks the half-mile to his house every morning so his breakfast is ready...
...could say, if you wrote down Diana's life story on the back of a postcard, that no one ever lived who was less like one of us. She was born into one of the oldest and grandest aristocratic families in England. She was always very rich, and in latter years she was extravagant on a scale that would have made Marie Antoinette blush. But the crowds were not wrong to suppose that she was one of us--any more than an earlier generation was wrong to feel that the Queen Mum (equally aristocratic and remote in reality from...