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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...
...Wilson will take over just as Judge Arthur Garrity Jr. prepares to relinquish the tight federal-court control of Boston's schools that he imposed eleven years ago to effect his sweeping desegregation plan. In Rochester, Wilson boosted student test scores and reduced absenteeism, while trimming $8 million from the budget. When fistfights broke out at school basketball games, he won plaudits by banning spectators for three weeks. In his application letter for the Boston job, Wilson called himself "the most qualified urban educator in the U.S." Now he will have a chance to prove it. High school illiteracy...
Others have made even more radical decisions. "I'd say that one-third of the men in our workshops say they've had no sex due to fear of AIDS," says Michael Wilson, president of Houston's KS-AIDS Foundation. Instead, some apparently release their sexual energies through masturbation, pornography, and sex by phone. The Advocate classifieds list several numbers that offer a seductive voice on the other end of the wire, payment to be made by credit card. "Horny? Call Your Adonis," says one ad. Sales of gay porn have risen, and video cassette recorders have never been...
...that price includes the phone. The rate also applies to calls made to U.S. numbers; compared with other domestic prepay plans, 20¢ a minute is about average. One catch: Uphonia phones can call just about anywhere in the world, but you can't use them outside the U.S. --By Wilson Rothman...
BERNARD JOSEPH WILSON JR. Lincoln...