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Boston's public schools have been a national symbol of racial conflict for more than a decade. But last week black, Hispanic and white members of the city's school committee united to elect Boston's first black school superintendent, Laval Wilson, 49, a no-nonsense administrator who has led the public schools in Rochester since 1980. "I'm thrilled," said School Committee President John Nucci, a resident of the blue-collar East Boston neighborhood, adding, "We're off to an optimistic start...
...seems to be holding up very well. If French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius can harness the power of love to the love of power, then he has nothing to worry about. Why? Because--zut alors!--the balding, slightly shaggy, extremely straitlaced father of two is France's newest sex symbol. According to a poll in the August issue of French Cosmopolitan, his countrywomen rate him the sexiest fellow in France. Asked to name the man they would 1) choose as a lover, 2) consider the "King Kong of sex," 3) want to spend their "last night of love" with...
Your issue on the atomic age was fascinating. I regret, however, your use of the mushroom, with its negative connotation, as the symbol for your SPECIAL SECTION. This comes at a time when the American Mushroom Institute is beginning a campaign to increase the consumption of mushrooms from 2.8 lbs. per capita to a much higher level. Perhaps by calling attention to the product, we will encourage Americans to increase their use of this nutritional commodity. Charles R. Harris, Executive Director American Mushroom Institute Kennett Square...
...more than 1,000 lighted candles inside paper lanterns were launched down the Mississippi River at La Crosse, Wis., by members of the Wisconsin Physicians for Social Responsibility. Those killed by the Bomb are annually commemorated this way in Japan, where floating paper lanterns are a symbol of dead souls. Similar lights bobbed along dozens of other U.S. waterways last week. Said Cameron Gundersen, a pediatrician in La Crosse: "The purpose of this commemoration is not to assign guilt or linger among the images of death but to remind ourselves of what we are capable of doing. We are capable...
Monday, April 11, 9pm, Vatican City The Return of Cardinal Law You could have termed it "kickin' him upstairs" when former Church heavyweight Bernard Cardinal Law was handed an honorific, but influence-free posting last year after his 2002 resignation from the Boston Archdiocese. Law, who became a symbol of inaction by American bishops in response to repeated cases of priests sexually abusing minors, is now the archpriest at St. Mary Major, one of the four main Basilicas in Rome. It is a largely ceremonial role, far from the influence he once wielded as the single most powerful American Cardinal...