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Successes do occur, says Middlebury's Dalton. "There are miracle workers out there doing incredible things." Freed of paperwork and unrelated duties, and with the backing of their principals, these counselors are able to focus students' attention early. Katahdin High School is in the depressed rural town of Sherman Station in northeastern Maine. The one counselor for the school's 250 students, Wayne Miller, is a key member of the faculty. He starts seeing freshmen "right off the bat" to get them thinking about careers, then eventually about how college might expand their opportunities. "Our kids are extraordinarily modest," says...
...according to ultimatums," he added that "if anyone has any offers, he should please turn to Israel in an orderly fashion." That seemed a scarcely veiled reference to an offer by Amal Leader Nabih Berri, who said he would release an Israeli flyer held by Amal if Jerusalem freed the 400 prisoners...
...Dissident Physicist Andrei Sakharov, who recently returned from seven years of internal exile, was invited to a nuclear disarmament conference at the Kremlin. Meanwhile, Soviet police arrested Yuri Churbanov, the son-in-law of former Leader Leonid Brezhnev, and jailed him on bribery and corruption charges. In addition, officials freed more than 40 political prisoners, the largest dissident group to be released in three decades, and announced that some 500 people, most of them Jews, have been granted exit visas. Only 900 people were allowed to emigrate during...
Berri, meanwhile, backed away yesterday from an earlier weekend statement that Anglican Church hostage-negotiator Terry Waite would be freed by today, now saying the release would take more time. Waite has been missing since January...
...standing absolutely alone ((abandoned by the N.Y.Y.C.)), a small businessman from San Diego facing the music by himself, with tears running down my cheeks. People said they were touched. In defeat I found something I never knew in victory. They were proud of me. In essence, the Cup was freed...