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...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...
...spring break begins today, Harvard students are jetting off to places exotic. Sightseeing in London, drinking yourself silly in Jamaica--these are the whistle-stops in the life of the privileged college student, and I do not begrudge them, for myself or others. But it seems sad, really, that many folks will graduate from Harvard having been up the Washington Monument but not the one on Bunker Hill, having been to Ireland but not South Boston, the home of Kafka but not of Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, or Longfellow...
...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...
...halls for two or three hours," said Lesley B. Townsend '01, whose room was burglarized. "They came into my room while I was downstairs and I didn't even know they were there...They took some of my stuff including my passport. Now I am supposed to go to Jamaica for spring break and they have my passport...
...wasn't an overnight success. At 18, Orville Richard Burrell (his oft untamed mane earned him the nickname Shaggy) left Kingston, Jamaica, for Brooklyn, N.Y., to launch a singing career. When he couldn't make ends meet, he joined the Marines. A year later, he found himself in Iraq with an artillery battery weaving through minefields. "It was wild--the atmosphere was kind of like Three Kings," he says, referring to the 1999 movie. During the long stretches of downtime, he started writing songs and, when he was discharged two years later, decided to make another run at recording...