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Week of 29 January 1999 Vol. II, No. 21 Feature Photo At the BU Chancellor's Office conference room January 22 (from left), Massachusetts House Speaker Thomas Finneran (D-Mattapan), BU Chancellor and State Board of Education Chairman John Silber, and Senate President Thomas Birmingham (D-Chelsea), along with other Massachusetts officials, met to talk with representatives of the Parent-Child Home Program, which began in Pittsfield, Mass., in 1970. The program, which has spread to seven other communities in the state, focuses on parents' involvement in the educational development of two- and three-year-old children. Photo by Fred Sway