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Lawrence Latinos, blacks backing embattled school superintendent
Lawrence Latinos, blacks backing embattled school superintendent
A simmering dispute between the mayor of Lawrence and the city's school superintendent has mobilized the city's black and Latino community against what activists there say is a racially charged political vendetta.
Lawrence Mayor Patricia Dowling last week demanded that School Superintendent Mae Gaskins tender her resignation in the wake of media reports alleging that Gaskins abused school funds and hired her sister as a consultant in violation of state ethics laws.
Activists from the city's Latino community and members of the Merrimack Valley and Boston chapter of the National Association for the …
Noam Chomsky.
Noam Chomsky
Hamish Hamilton
Interviews do not succumb to some of critical writing's pressures: they are free and flexible.
Chomsky is not renowned for energy or liveliness, but in this collection of musings, he gives newcomers a robust introduction to the ideas that have made him among the most controversial public intellectuals of a divisive era.
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