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Harvard Business School graduate Daniel Curran, who is currently a research associate on the HBS staff, helped to create the fund as “a way to raise funds and to provide financial and organizational management assistance to the independent associations that fund the long-term educational needs of the children of victims...
...vast edges of the cosmos is futile. Doubtless these theories will be revised and replaced many times over. Perhaps it is best to ignore why the world turns and simply celebrate that it does. Don't worry about the end of the universe; no one gets out alive. JOHN CURRAN Wellesley, Mass...
...burly former New York City street cop, Curran knew he wouldn't reach his students just by preaching to them. "You can't lecture someone into change," he says. So he sought to make the lessons deeply personal. Part group therapy, part confessional, the course asks cops first to talk about how they have been humiliated in their lives. In Bosnia police noted that their superiors strip-searched them at the end of each shift to take whatever bribes they had collected. In Latin America cops complained of being regularly forced to do menial work, like building houses for their...
...course can be tough going," says Curran, "but it changes them." In Jamaica cops who returned from the classes immediately began reforming the prisons, allowing inmates basic rights, like making phone calls. In El Salvador graduates began segregating youthful offenders from adults in jail. In other countries cops have incorporated the course's techniques into their training programs. A recent survey of the first crop of graduates concluded that the course had been "a watershed in their own lives...
...learned a lot of lessons from the course," says Curran, "but the basic one is that all cops want to have their jobs mean something." Usually something good, it turns...