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...weren't robust enough to support decent schools. "Was it fair for [rich towns] to have an advantage when somebody else's fundamental rights--in this case, a public education--were being denied?" asks Allen Gilbert, a parent from working-class Worcester. Spreading the burden through the state, says Randolph school-board member Laura Soares, whose town can now afford to build a new elementary school after a 30-year wait, "is the moral thing to do." And, the receivers contend, the wealthy are not only selfish but arrogant. "They're not used to losing debates," says state senator Cheryl...
...Randolph Catlin Jr., outgoing chief ofmental health services at UHS, says his departmenttries to train receptionists to ask studentswhether they need help immediately, or whether thehelp can wait. Catlin admits that this is not afoolproof plan, as the system relies on thestudents to take the initiative...
Hang on to your pillbox: Halston may be back. Under the guidance of designer Randolph Duke and managing director Carmine Porcelli, the Halston label is getting hotter than a mink stole in August. Geena Davis and Minnie Driver triggered a volley of flashbulbs when they wore Halston to the Oscars in March. Exclusive department stores are stocking Halston again. After three well-received fashion shows, naysayers who clucked that the label was best consigned to history are beginning to hold their tongue. Just as folks are fondly looking back on the old Halston haunt Studio 54, with two movies...
...Randolph Duke at Halston really have to show knitted tube tops, and do we really have to wear them again...
...write all his life. His life of Marlborough is one of the great English biographies, and The History of the Second World War helped win him a Nobel Prize for literature. Writing, however, never fully engaged his energies. Politics consumed him. His father Lord Randolph Churchill was a brilliant political failure. Early in life, Winston determined to succeed where his father had failed. His motives were twofold. His father had despised him. Writing in August 1893 to Winston's grandmother, the dowager Duchess of Marlborough, he said the boy lacked "cleverness, knowledge and any capacity for settled work...