Word: rowing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their target.) Along the Boardwalk stands a rank of casinos nudged so close against the water that they seem to teeter at its edge, their windows shut to the ocean air, their backs turned to the city. Behind them cowers the neighborhood known as the Inlet, where boxy row houses devolve into strange confections of brick, plywood and cardboard, and people doze on sleeping bags in doorless rooms with broken windows...
...casino in a city where she once worked as a chambermaid. She had been moving up and away from her childhood in the Inlet, earning a Ph.D. in urban planning at Rutgers University, when Bally's Park Place Casino tapped her for the job. Now she has transformed the row house where she grew up into a modern testament to her faith in the neighborhood. Her picture hangs inside Dave's Groceries nearby...
...Council awarded, for the sixth year in a row, the Levenson Prize to recognize excellence in teaching...
...Harper & Row; 355 pages...
...host to Presidents George Bush and Francois Mitterrand of France at B.U.'s graduation exercises. Next month Silber's precedent-setting experiment at running the troubled public schools of Chelsea, Mass., gets under way in the glare of national publicity. And in a forthcoming book called Straight Shooting (Harper & Row; $22.50), Silber takes some potshots at the shortcomings of the nation's educational system...