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...really tough. The Conant Fellowship is nice, but I have to live," says Elliot Stern, who is on leave this year from his job at Boston English High School. "I don't know how I'm going to finish," he adds. Stern is enrolled in the doctoral program at the Ed School and says he hopes to be able to finish his studies next year part-time while returning to work...
...have a commitment to the urban area," Stern says. "There's a need for people to work in urban areas and commit themselves." The problem with urban schools, Stern says, is the high turnover rate among teachers and administrators, which creates general instability in the system. "It just gets worse and worse because you get less support and less opportunity. The good [teachers] leave and go somewhere else and there's more turnover...
With help from Deputy Campaign Manager Joe Trippi, Political Consultant Bob Shrum, 44, an intense and brilliant veteran wordsmith in four presidential campaigns, went to work on a television ad that would bring Gephardt's theme to life. It showed a stern-looking Gephardt promising to force the Koreans to reduce tariffs on American cars, or "they'll soon learn how many Americans will pay $48,000 for a Hyundai." The spot hit the air in Iowa the day after Christmas and grabbed viewers by the collar. "What the TV did was punch through what I'd been saying...
...selecting population segments of 300,000 homes in various regions across the country and then intensively studying their group dynamics after a normal U.S. census is taken by mail, said Rubin, who has been at Harvard for four years. The scientists, who include Rubin, Assistant Professor of Statistics Hal Stern and four graduate students, then use the results from these segmented studies to adjust the census' total population count...
Even so, the justices gave custody of 22-month-old Melissa Elizabeth to her father. The Sterns, the court decided, could provide a more stable home: "Their household and their personalities promise a much more likely foundation for Melissa to grow and thrive." Last November Whitehead divorced her first husband to marry Dean Gould, and the couple is now expecting a child of their own. But the justices also restored the parental rights of Whitehead- Gould, which the trial judge had terminated, and invalidated last year's adoption of Melissa by Elizabeth Stern. By instructing a lower court to decide...