Former Chairman of Mass. Board Dies
John R. Silber, the sharp-tongued, pugnacious public intellectual who, as president of Boston University, oversaw the takeover of the city of Chelsea's troubled public school system and was later appointed chairman of the Massachusetts board of education, died last...
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