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...fact, a new spirit of compromise is evident across the country. Albert Shanker, the longtime head of the A.F.T. who was once a symbol of teacher militancy, has been quick to support such contested measures as teacher standards. In Illinois 40 school districts belong to the Consortium for Education Change, begun by the state N.E.A. affiliate, which promotes cooperative efforts among unions, schools and parents. In Glenview, Illinois, for example, teachers have adopted a "constitution" rather than a contract and become active participants in reform...
...pauses as a new thought occurs to him: "You know, it's the way I used to feel when I would go to see sick people or handicapped people in the Superman years. I was called on to go everywhere as a kind of symbol--to Sloan-Kettering to see terminally ill children, to the Make a Wish Foundation, where the kid's last request is to meet me, you know, even though I'm not Superman. Indulge in the fantasy of meeting the person who plays Superman. Sometimes they didn't even make a distinction. I could show...
...critics and rivals have already composed his requiem, claiming from the start that he was the symbol of the G.O.P.'s blind faith in primogeniture, a front runner who cannot win; that he's a mid-20th century man at the lip of the 21st century; that there is no room for a relic in a church that worships youth; that one can't be tongue-tied and taciturn in the age of confession. Sometimes the hard way builds muscles, sows compassion, tests courage. But sometimes the hard way is just the wrong...
...Manhattan apartment (read: Satan's throne), Nixon agreed to liberalize the G.O.P. platform, in part by adding an unequivocal civil rights plank. Goldwater compared the meeting to Neville Chamberlain's capitulation to Hitler at Munich. For the final insult, Nixon chose Massachusetts Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., a pedigreed symbol of the Eastern aristocrats, as his running mate...
DIED. HAROLD C. FOX, 86, Big Band musician and Chicago clothing retailer who was largely responsible for the creation of the wide-shouldered, high-waisted zoot suit, a symbol of the boogie-woogie era; of cancer; in Siesta Key, Florida...