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...have much education, usually high school at best. They aren't very ambitious to begin with, and once they get on the police force, they get a little orientation but no real training. Usually a couple of officers talk to the new man and then assign him to an older patrolman, who may be a first-class crook...
...which there is neither father nor stepfather. Almost all their homes lack books and newspapers. Young girls say that their "biggest problem" is to get home without being molested by men. Teachers struggle "tenaciously and bravely" against the adversities of home and street, but bow before the realities. They assign no homework because it is an impossibility in filthy, noisy tenements. They teach no foreign languages in junior high school because half of their pupils hardly know English-they read at sixth-grade level or below. Their immediate task is to prod sleeping children who have been kept awake...
According to the English Department, it is up to the instructor in charge to select his own assistants, and he may arrange the burden as he wishes. Rosenberg tries to assign his eight graders by giving the largest burdens to the most experienced assistants and to those with the most time. Some of his staff have 35 to 40 students, and none has over...
...social systems by assuming that effect is proportional to cause. It may be accurate in most of science, Purcell said, but it is "wildly untrue in human affairs. Any historical event is utterly non-linear, the result of a large number of causes." Thus, he said, you cannot assign weights to various causes...
...Guevara's pleas for coexistence reflected Cuba's increasing economic troubles. With something less than his usual cockiness. Fidel Castro announced last week that he was imposing meat rationing on the fertile "Pearl of the Antilles." All housewives must register with neighborhood butchers, who will assign them numbers. When meat arrives, the butcher is supposed to post, by turn, the numbers of housewives who may buy one-half pound per family member. The butchers do not know how often they will get deliveries from the government; the housewives do not know when-or if-their numbers will come...