Word: forward
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...leeway to do what she liked, she says. Citing an atmosphere that allowed such inventive talents as director Peter Sellars '80 to flourish, Woods says Harvard "certainly made me very aware of, from a lyric standpoint, just how far I could get pushed and still have my creativity come forward...
...which Soviet defense policy rests. Though he made no mention of the military in his speech to the party plenum last week, Gorbachev has made it clear that he wants the military to shift from an offensive to a defensive posture through such possible moves as withdrawing from forward positions in Eastern Europe. In place of its quest for superiority over the West in numbers of weapons and troops, Gorbachev is demanding that the armed forces make do with a "reasonable sufficiency." To assure success, Gorbachev has reshuffled the military high command and silenced opponents of reform. Last week Foreign...
...Disneyland, if not nearly as magical. During the fall, winter and spring, Katie goes to day care before and after school each day. Because of Mona's presence, Katie has had a brief reprieve. Says she: "I used to go to day care all summer. I didn't look forward to summer then...
Katie is looking forward to this summer's break from day care. But she already misses her classmates, and in a way she misses her school too. For inside Montlake something exciting is happening. Over the past three years, LaVaun Dennett, Montlake's principal, reorganized the school schedule so that the average class size could be reduced from 28 to 20 without adding a single faculty member. More time is now spent on reading and math, which kids do according to ability, not grade. Katie's skills in these subjects are far beyond the third-grade level, so she takes...
...true that Jackson's famed "I Am Somebody" speech ("my mind is a pearl; I can do anything in the world") has proven to have a universal appeal. And his speeches at suburban high schools in which he asks those who have used drugs to admit it and come forward have been powerful...