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...disputed, his book gives no clear picture of the people's daily lives. While Karol criticizes Castro for not restructuring the social relationships, Karol, himself, neglects to delve into the nature of these problems. He only hints, for example, that education and male-female roles are still very backward. That these relationships have survived the revolution indicates some serious misjudgment in priorities...
...Everything Herndon observes takes place in the "Spanish Main" intermediate school in "Tierra Firma," a thinly disguised middle-class suburb of San Francisco, where Herndon has taught for years. He appears to have tried every kind of pedagogical method, from applying a full quota of "reading" workbooks in a backward class to running a mini-free school where kids could come and go as they pleased. The results, though touched by humor and humanity, are disheartening...
There are no Massachusetts statutes which function as a "doctrine of attractive nuisance" either in part or in whole. "The state is inexcusably backward in its social responsibility in this area." Kaitz said...
...have no power to create policy," Putnam said yesterday. "But I know the Treasurer would lean over backward to conform to our wishes...
...buildings and the maintenance of aging ones. Since every improvement leads to a higher assessment, landlords too often find it more profitable to let rental housing deteriorate than to modernize it. As Housing Consultant Perry Prentice points out: "Today's property tax harnesses the profit motive backward instead of forward. There is not a city in this country that is not making its growth, urban renewal and redevelopment problems worse by the way it misapplies the property tax to penalize improvements and subsidize the misuse of land...