Word: ansin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happens around people who succeed, there are prophecies "remembered" from Michael's school days about his future prowess. But a classmate, Mikki Ansin, says great things were predicted of many students at that forced-pace high school. "We all got the message -- we were headed somewhere." Brookline has been hospitable to strivers -- about a third of the population Dukakis grew up with was Jewish. Today about 20% of the community is made up of industrious South Asians...
Classmate Ansin says of Brookline: "A lot of stars came out of that town." But in 1951 the predominating star was a senior people already thought of as the Inevitable Michael. He was president of the honor society, good at sports, a trumpeter in the band. "Whatever it was, he ran for it," according to his mother. When he was rated only as the equal of his girlfriend, Sandy Cohen (Bakalar), in French, Michael found out this was because of her superior accent, and he practiced his pronunciation. He did not like losing, even to friends. He signed her yearbook...