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After a semester in the Co-op, Calvert moved into Curner House, where she now resides...
...expected a diametric switch when I transferred from West Point, which is said to be oriented to the right, to liberal-minded Harvard. And not only was I moving to this liberal campus, but [the Co-op] was the most liberal of the liberal. After coming from all West Point structure, I was thrown into a situation where duty dishes were always lying around the house, and dinner usually wasn't ready," Calvert recalls...
...just wanted to say 'Look, this is the way it's supposed to run," she continues. "That would work at West Point. But you try to tell someone at the Co-op and they say, "Though, that's not what I want to do.' And there's nothing you could do to enforce the rules. It frustrated me, because it could have been a very pleasant arrangement...
They feel they have achieved a similar academic integration, by providing many distinct academic programs in the high school. The 2700 students attending Rindge and Latin enroll either in the main high school or in one of three alternatives--the Fundamental School, the Pilot School, or the Enterprise Co-op. The majority spend their four years in the regular high school, pursuing what outsiders would consider "normal" public secondary school education. But those with special needs may participate in the other set-ups. The Fundamental School follows the back-to-basics, three "R's" approach, offering the 400 students involved...
...world's most powerful central banker bunks down in a spartan, $394-a-month one-bedroom Washington apartment so cramped that he can receive only one visitor at a time. Then on weekends he commutes to New York, where his wife Barbara keeps house in an unpretentious Manhattan co-op apartment for their son James, 23, also a banker, who suffers from cerebral palsy. Though she is severely afflicted with arthritis, Barbara has gone to work as a bookkeeper for a small architectural firm to help out. Like many another cash-strapped American family, the Volckers are cutting back...