Word: correctives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Often Kahlo (Helen Schneider) is painted as a cardboard caricature in order to better serve narrow agendas: agonizingly disabled, Mexican, communist, bisexual, a woman oppressed by a famous painter husband. Frida expertly avoids exploiting the politically correct factors that have posthumously made Frida Kahlo a pop culture celebrity...
With the environmentally-correct Eco-Pak packaging of their new CD, INXS creates a modern look but retains its overwhelmingly familiar sound. Fans of earlier INXS albums shouldn't be disappointed, but new listeners will find little to be excited about...
...staff is correct in arguing that it's time for Harvard's clerical and technical workers to receive a pay raise...
...correct; they die quickly. A man with a gimpy leg, evidently the center's undertaker, expertly wraps these two bodies and four others -- the day's dead -- in rags and burlap sacks discarded from rations that came too late. He puts the bundles into a blue wheelbarrow, wheels them out of the compound and down to the banks of the Juba, where they are lowered together into an open grave...
Even more compelling than test scores are the changes that cannot be quantified. In 1981 Lowell's school system was so racially segregated that a federal judge ordered the city to correct the imbalance. When C.M.S. first opened, the student body was mostly black; this September more than half the students are from white and Hispanic families who requested to take part in the program. Until the practice was dropped several years ago, parents used to register their children for C.M.S. in the hospital the day they were born. A mother of six, Margaret Pollard sent her three youngest children...