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...Paul B. Waller Rockford...
...next election, which must be called by 1988 at the latest. He wants new and younger faces in the leadership and, above all, an end to the debilitating struggles between right and left for control of the party machinery. Kinnock is impressed by a study by Oxford Professor Robert Waller, who has found that social change in Britain could be in the process of making Labor "the party of the past." Waller's analysis shows that since the 1970s Britain has become a society of skilled workers and homeowners, a middle-class nation that no longer can respond...
...Alvarado and other reformers is the establishment within a district of a so-called magnet school, featuring specialized programs in the sciences, arts or humanities along with a core curriculum. Its purpose: to achieve integration by creating an inner-city school with an irresistible claim to academic excellence. Waller High School in Chicago, once a mere holding pen, was transformed by District Superintendent Margaret Harrigan into Lincoln Park High. It has a school of science with a college-level course in biochemistry, a school of languages that offers French, German, Italian and Spanish, and a school of arts that offers...
About 95% of the students at Waller were black; enrollment at Lincoln Park is 56% black. This year 200 applied for the 30 places in Lincoln Park's International Baccalaureate program, an academically demanding two-year curriculum, and students who scored in the 97th percentile on the entrance exam were turned away. Says Stephen Ballis, an insurance executive and neighborhood parent: "This used to be a half-filled building, isolated from the community. Now it's overcrowded. Excellence and expectations of excellence are contagious...
...Elsenberg '86, said yesterday that she went to the club at 6:15 p.m. to have dinner with a professor and sevoral other students and left her wallet in her coat when she left it in the controom. Two hours later she retrieved her coal and discovered her waller was missing...