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...TONY ENCLAVE OF MORRIS TOWNSHIP, N.J., reality is a $700,000 house perched on acres of shady lawn, and crime is a plot device in a P.D. James novel. Recently, though, the disappearance of one of Morris Township's most respected citizens has brought in a gust of the world outside. Sidney Reso, the 57-year-old president of Exxon International, vanished, his car left idling at the end of his driveway, as he headed for work on the morning of April 29, and no one has seen him since...
...Rankuwa Township, 8 a.m. Thami Mcerwa, 27, president of the Azanian Youth Organization (AZAYO) -- Azania is what his movement would rename South Africa -- is preparing for another day's work in "the struggle." He spent the night as he usually does: in a four-room matchbox house in Soweto that he shares with his mother, brother and two sisters. Then he made the 50-mile journey north in his battered green Toyota to this black ghetto outside Pretoria...
Today his task is to deliver a eulogy for a fallen comrade. Before entering the scruffy cemetery on the edge of the township, Mcerwa takes off his T shirt, emblazoned with a picture of a guerrilla fighter triumphantly holding up an AK-47 rifle, and pulls on a dashiki, a loose-fitting African tunic. "Power!" he shouts to the 100 assembled mourners. "One Azania! One nation!" As a hot morning sun beats down, he angrily accuses a white-owned chemical company of murdering his comrade by exposing him to dangerous toxins on the job. "They think black life...
...largely to the numerous hearings and appeals required. Part of the difficulty is that the probationary period before tenure is granted, a mere three years in most states, is too short. Also, administrators generally do a poor job of scrutinizing tenure candidates. Henry Bangser, superintendent of New Trier Township High School in Winnetka, Ill., estimates that it can take more than three years from the time a tenured teacher is judged incompetent by a principal until that teacher has exhausted the appeal process...
SOMEWHERE in the swampy backwoods of New Jersey, the world's last remaining Communist bureaucracy lurks. Its address is for a P.O. Box in Princeton, a move designed to give it a totally undeserved aura of academic legitimacy; in fact, it's in Lawrence Township...