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...students use their TF's accent as anexcuse not to do their best work," said Donna R.D'Fini, coordinator of the department's graduateprograms. "Some students concentrate on theaccent, not on the math...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, | Title: TFs Will Receive More Training | 3/15/1994 | See Source »

...Fini, who has worked in Harvard's mathdepartment for 17 years, said she recognizes theproblems inherent in assigning foreign-born TFs toteach sections...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, | Title: TFs Will Receive More Training | 3/15/1994 | See Source »

...Things have a lot to do with culturaldifferences and prejudices," D'Fini said. "Somestudents come in with a mind that is alreadyclosed to a TF with an accent--in the time thatI've been here I've even seen students complainingabout a TF with a strong Southern accent...

Author: By Elizabeth J. Riemer, | Title: TFs Will Receive More Training | 3/15/1994 | See Source »

Gianfranco Fini's neofascist Italian Social Movement wins 16.4% of the vote in 428 municipal elections throughout the country, adding 14 new mayors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Strength on the Right | 12/27/1993 | See Source »

Romans split between the Democratic Party of the Left, which backed Francesco Rutelli, 39, a Green candidate who ran on an environmentalist platform promising to bring pedestrian zones and pollution controls to the decaying capital, and the baby-faced leader of the neofascist Italian Social Movement, Gianfranco Fini, 41. He contended his party best responds to public demands for law and order, immigration controls and restoration of the death penalty. The top two vote getters in Naples, the city that has come to symbolize southern Italy's chronic poverty and lawlessness, were Antonio Bassolino, a 46-year-old veteran communist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Up with ... Fascists? | 12/6/1993 | See Source »

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