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...comedian pulls a clean tan knit shirt over his head, looks in the mirror, rearranges his hair. He has a slight, muscular build, a strong chin and a brown mustache that makes him resemble Sonny Bono. "Half the people seemed confused, not knowing whether to laugh or not. I imagine the older folks came in here, took one look at me and said, 'What the heck is that guy doing...
University officials are saying little publicly, but they, too, concede privately that the chances of a rapprochement are slight. "We still want that building," one staffer explains. And University spokesmen says they have not yet reached a decision on whether to take the matter to court should they lose before the rent board. They add that they have definitely not rejected the idea of a legal challenge...
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University officials are saying little publicly, but they, too, concede privately that the chances of a rapprochement are slight. "We still want that building," one staffer explains. And University spokesmen says they have not yet reached a decision on whether to take the matter to court should they lose before the rent board. They add that they have definitely not rejected the idea of a legal challenge...
...completed in 1977 by the California-based American Institutes for Research. After studying 11,500 students over two years, researchers found that children in bilingual programs did no better at learning English or anything else than non-English-speaking students thrust into regular classes-except for a slight edge in elementary math. Proponents of bilingualism, including Hufstedler, regard the report not only as inadequate but out of date. Says Rudolph Troike, director of the office of multicultural bilingual education at the University of Illinois: "The payoff of bilingual education doesn't show up until the fifth or sixth year...