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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Please don't mistake me; I'm not attempting to paint a warm and fuzzy picture of prisoners. Some of them are manipulative and test the boundaries of the tutor-tutee relationship every week. Some tell stories just to appease the ears of tutors. After months without contact with women, some tutees make inappropriate comments to female tutors. Some lack the motivation to progress through lessons or continually forget to complete assignments. Yet the structure of the Harvard tutoring program grants individual tutors autonomy over their curriculum and allows them to ask for a new tutee, if the situation becomes...
...only first names in the prison, to prevent any possibility of prolonged contact once an inmate is released. In order to establish boundaries in the tutor-tutee relationship, we are not allowed to write to our tutees during their incarceration or accept any cards from them. All the tutors I have encountered agree that the environment within the prison is very safe...
Working with the same person for months establishes a strong bond between tutor and tutee. Although we are prohibited from asking them what crime they have committed, inmates often volunteer this information, along with stories about their families and prison life. For some inmates, we are the only civilian contact they encounter throughout their stay in prison, a fact which often blurs the line between our role as tutor and confidante...
...distance. Mt.Washington is located 15 miles north and canprovide some challenging hikes, even for the car.The panoramic view of the surrounding PresidentialMountains is decidedly worth the climb. PinkhamNotch is a favorite spot among hikers, with itstrails that wind beneath ravines, including thefamous Tuckerman's Ravine, known for its springskiing. (Contact the Appalachian Mountain Club formore information...
...over the world flowed in to what was called TIME Edit, the New York operation that actually produced what appeared in the magazine. (Under group journalism, the voice was the authoritative tone of TIME; there were no bylines.) TIME Edit had a large staff that was in constant contact all week through meetings and story conferences and fact-checking sessions. People had some time on their hands at the beginning of the week and were thrown together in a late-night crisis atmosphere at the end of the week. All the writers and editors were male; all the researchers...