Word: pennsylvania
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...further recruitment efforts, Harvard, along with Yale, Princeton, Brown, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT has already created a system to facilitate the exchange of names of highly qualified minority students who are potential candidates for graduate school...
...have heard of Edward C. Banfield. Unless you've taken an urban studies class you probably don't even know his name. And that's just the way Banfield wants it when he returns to Harvard this spring after a three-year hiatus from Cambridge at the University of Pennsylvania...
...largest walkout came in Chicago, the nation's third largest school system, where 27,000 teachers shut down all of the city's 666 public schools preventing 530,000 pupils from attending classes. In Pennsylvania, strikes closed 25 of the state's 505 school districts, and teachers walked picket lines in one-third of Rhode Island's school districts. Schools were shut down in Berkeley, Calif., Wilmington, Del., and dozens of other cities. In hundreds of districts, teachers began the school year at work without contracts, awaiting the outcome of bargaining sessions that seemed hopelessly deadlocked...
...unwritten rules of the Foreign Service, Carter, now 54, should also have forgotten about continuing his brief but successful diplomatic career. A former editor and publisher of several black newspapers in Pennsylvania, the lanky, balding Carter joined the U.S. Information Service in 1965 and was put in charge of the American embassy's press relations in Kenya. Four years later he became Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. Dar es Salaam was his first post as ambassador (he is one of only five blacks among the nation's 120 ambassadors), but in three years...
Banfield, who will be returning to Harvard after three years at Pennsylvania, is like the professional athlete who is always dubbed "controversial" by the sports writers. He wears the label but few really know how he earned it. He is controversial largely because in Unheavenly City and again in his most recent work, Unheavenly City Revisited, Banfield attempts to define the real issues that make up the urban crisis. The controversy is fanned when he reaches conclusions that those enamored of Great Society philosophies find disturbing and radical groups feel are racist and simply wrong...