Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same period, the city's only high school. Cambridge Rindge and Latin, has gone from a dilapidated, crumbling building--with a curriculum in far worse shape than its physical structure--to "a school we can hold our heads high over," as School Committee member Frances Cooper describes it. Attendance and test scores have improved across the board as well, and a series of special programs and "magnet schools" provide educational alternatives for every type of student...
...slalom when half the women entered fell or missed gates in a thick fog. And Ursula Konzett, a 24-year-old Liechtensteiner, took the bronze. The only known quantity here was France's Perrine Pelen, who won the silver and, earlier, a bronze behind Armstrong and Cooper in the G.S. Four years ago, Pelen took a bronze in the G.S. at Lake Placid. But talking about 1980 only emphasizes that four years ago, Michela Figini of Switzerland, who won the gold in the downhill last week, was 13 years old. For Americans, nothing showed the passage of time more...
...heroes are unforgettable, but the young are irresistible. Bubbly, round-faced Debbie Armstrong broke into a big, can't-hold-it-back grin as the gold medal was hung around her neck. After her second run in the G.S., she had stood waiting for Christin Cooper's time to confirm her gold or push her into second. As she realized that Cooper had just failed to beat her, she turned her head away, and her marvelously readable face registered sublime relief and joy for herself, and pain and sorrow for Cooper. The two stood together, hugging and exclaiming...
...observer could doubt that the emotions they showed were real and strong, but the gurgling obscured the toughness of these athletes. Cooper's recovery from complicated leg surgery was well enough known, and Armstrong too, it turned out, had come back after harrowing crackups. She had broken her leg in practice at Schladming, Austria, two years ago, recovered fast enough to get onto the World Cup circuit the same season, and then broke the same leg again...
...high ski boot to support the bad leg. Both her father, a psychologist, and her mother teach skiing part time, and she has always skied, but at Garfield High School in Seattle she was also an M.V.P. for two years in soccer and basketball. Her bubbly nature is infectious; Cooper said later, "I was behind her in the starting area, and I heard her saying to herself, 'O.K., Deb, just have a good time, have a good time, have the run of your life.' And then she turned to me and said, 'You too, Coop. Have...