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...evening of april 4, 1968, about an hour after Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, Robert F. Kennedy responded with a powerfully simple speech, which he delivered spontaneously in a black neighborhood of Indianapolis. Nearly 40 years later, Kennedy's words stand as an example of the substance and music of politics in its grandest form and highest purpose-to heal, to educate, to lead. Sadly, his speech also marked the end of an era: the last moments before American public life was overwhelmed by marketing professionals, consultants and pollsters who, with the flaccid acquiescence of the politicians, have robbed...
...spent three years in the Marine Corps before starting work as a newspaper journalist, initially in order to fund his fiction writing. He switched to television journalism after a decade in newspapers and moved to Washington with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in 1972. He began his collaboration with Robert MacNeil—a partnership that led to the 20-year run of the “MacNeil/Lehrer Report”—when the two covered the Watergate hearings in 1973. Lehrer has remained with the show, now called “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer...
...Soares. Bishop’s life was one plagued with tragedy: her father died before her birth, a boyfriend committed suicide leaving her with a postcard, “Go to hell, Elizabeth,” and de Macedo Soares died by overdose. A close friend of confessional poet Robert Lowell, Bishop abstained from his personal, intimate style, preferring a more guarded approach to writing despite her various hardships. She was the recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award, but her reputation has grown since her death, according...
...tests had been misscored in October, one by 450 points. The Massachusetts Department of Education uses MCAS scores to determine whether schools are meeting annual benchmarks as defined by the No Child Left Behind Act, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002. But Robert A. Schaeffer, the public education director of FairTest—a Cambridge-based organization that monitors standardized tests from the kindergarten through the graduate level—said the occurrence of grading errors in the MCAS undermines the validity of these tests in charting student performance. “Over...
...years there, he received the UC Berkeley Distiguished Teaching Award in 1983. He is best known for “Studies on Bail”, his book that was published in 1966 arguing for the reform of the bail system. He is survived by his wife Hope, his children Robert, Eliot, Andrew, David, and Heather, and their four grandchildren. They could not be reached for comment...