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After being named presidential chief of staff within days after the final round of voting, Chubais brought together an eclectic group of people, such as Maxim Boyko, a Harvard-trained economist, and Yevgeni Savostyanov, an activist and disciple of Andrei Sakharov, who in the Yeltsin era became a KGB general. In trying to create his "dictatorship within the government," Chubais has wielded power with brutal enthusiasm. The recently created All-Russian Extraordinary Commission to collect back taxes, for example, has his fingerprints all over it. The idea is to scare money out of the companies that owe the government...
...Galina Boyko, principal of School No. 32 in Moscow, was teaching Russian literature to a class of 13-year-olds when a boy shot his hand into the air and asked about man's need for religion. Boyko, a 32-year veteran of the classroom, was understandably startled: religion has long been taboo in Soviet schools. But instead of avoiding the issue, she led her students through a 30- minute debate on the universal search for faith. "Before school reform, parents would have come to me, frightened that religion had even come up," Boyko said. "Now no one is surprised...
...years ago, Boyko would not have handled the topic of religion with such confidence, nor would Volodya have had the last word. Now fresh breezes of tolerance are wafting through many Soviet schools, from first to tenth grade. Always considered a potent means of molding character, schools have been transformed into little laboratories of restructuring. Under Gorbachev, they are to change citizens from sheep into self-starters. Said Boguslovsky: "Soviet society requires not just a person who carries out orders but someone who thinks for himself. Our children are not mannequins, and our school is not a fortress...
...like drill sergeants and demanding ready obedience. In many schools, parents are called in for collective meetings, where they hear their children denounced before other adults. Any mother or father who tries to defend his child does so at the risk of seeing him later punished by his teacher. Boyko agreed that many teachers are not prepared for reform. "They don't have the strength to change, or they think the old ways are just fine," she said...
Third period-4. T. Phil Brouillard (Jim Byrne) 2:50, 5. T. Glen Murphy (Chris Callaghan) 3:19, 6. T. Doug Caines (Fric Orschel, Darren Boyko) 10:51, 7. H. Smith (unassisted) 11:15, 8. H. Peter Follows (Jerry Pawloski) 3:26, 9. T. Murphy (Ken Duggan...