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...contrast, Carper relishes his non-U public-school background. A Viet Nam veteran, he served three terms as state treasurer before unseating Republican Congressman Tom Evans in 1982. He tools across the state in his beat-up Plymouth Horizon, listening to classical music, and boasts that he has now shaken every hand in Delaware. Carper professes not to mind that Du Pont plans to spend $300,000 more than he, insisting, "I'm used to being outspent. I overcome it by an intense, person-to-person grass-roots campaign." Carper, who supported Gold water in 1964, is a fiscal...
...chores because our office staff had been cut, as well as new responsibilities for windows, chalkboards and wastebaskets because our custodial department had also been trimmed. Even worse, my paycheck is $52 less than last year's because of the increased cost of medical coverage. The millennium for public-school teachers may be on its way, but it is not here...
...sure that politicians who have become involved in disputes over public-school prayer [July 26] did so out of concern not for those little souls but for their own jobs. As a Baptist public-school educator, I am against prayer in public school. I don't want someone else's faith taught to my children in the captive environment of a classroom, nor do I intend to teach my faith to those who have no choice but to listen...
...university already has one of the highest public-school tuition rates in the country, and school officials feel reluctant to increase tuition much higher, fearing that doing so would scare off many potential students...
...what members call an effort to revive its involvement with the local community, the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Cultural Center today will launch a program that calls for Harvard students to work with Cambridge public-school children...