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...adult who gives them. And that usually requires a revolution in consciousness. We all know that the revolution doesn't occur simply because a person does the work necessary to get an advanced degree in a special subject. Your doctoral robe gets you into a classroom filled with curious faces, but won't make you feel like a teacher' it may only make you feel like a Macheth in stolen robes that hang loose upon him. Any book or program that purports to help teachers has to help the "usurper" grow into the robes...
...officials are far from convinced that fair and proper procedures will be followed. Because of the vague operating rules and the curious timing of the election-two days before the U.S. presidential election-officials speculate that the Sandinistas want to divert attention from their own activities. For the Sandinistas the problem is clear-cut: how to create a free and open election, and make sure they...
...seems curious that many accept the common wisdom that the Cambridge police force is generally racist and that its officers often harass minorities indiscriminately, but dismiss suggestions that the Harvard police could share the same attitudes and prejudices. As a rule, HUPD attracts the same type of person that would join the Cambridge force; generally local Massachusetts residents of working class origins who may be angered by seeing middle and lower income Blacks receiving opportunities that their children never will...
Young people in the Soviet Union today are, by and large, more materialistic, more outspoken and much more curious than ever before about the outside world, especially the U.S. But if today's youths are less passionate about Communist ideology than their forebears were, they are no less patriotic. "We have grown up without the privations of war, so this has allowed us to think more about ourselves and give our personal desires more importance," says Yuri, 28, a gas-drilling technician from the Caucasus. "But we are just as ready to defend our motherland...
...accuse the Arabs for mistreatment of their own populations. Hardly anyone seems to remember or even know that three years ago the armed forces of Syrian President Assad sealed off the city of Aleppo and massacered upwards of 10,000 people protesting against the government. The world displays a curious amnesia when it comes to the atrocities of Israel's neighbors...