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...this very lily-white community, and our kids are very sheltered and very protected. When we have the opportunity to have our children learn from and understand and meet and befriend kids from different backgrounds and different cultures, our kids are so enriched,” says Ellen Waldron, also a member of the school committee. “Metco is the ultimate anti-racist initiative, the ultimate desegregation movement...
...course, programs like Metco cannot solve America’s racial issues by themselves. “Metco is no panacea,” Waldron says. The program has several problems of its own, including the tendency of students on both sides to self-segregate. But exposing students to a diverse environment at a young age can only foster education and understanding in the long run—having nine black students sitting together at a table in a sea of white bodies is better than having none at all. And in fact, Bedford’s decision to boost...
...Ebbers who gave LDDS its mojo--and a mission to democratize U.S. long-distance service. "He was the most focused leader I'd ever seen," says Murray Waldron, one of Ebbers' original partners. Ebbers used a folksier spin. "The thing that has helped me personally," he told TIME in 1997, "is that I don't understand a lot of what goes on in this industry." What he did perceive was that his networks had to keep getting bigger to achieve economies of scale. By 1995, LDDS counted many of America's largest corporations as customers for its vast voice...
...warming the planet in just a few decades. And as our population began the year 2000 above the 6 billion mark, still spreading across the continents, dozens of animal and plant species were going extinct every day, including the first primate to disappear in more than 100 years, Miss Waldron's red colobus...
...Baby: How I Survived Mascara, Miniskirts, and Madness, or My Life As a Fabulous Ronette," by Ronnie Spector and Vince Waldron, Harper Perennial...