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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...married Jody Wolcott, with whom he had three sons. Carson started to enjoy modest success as a West Coast comedian. But in the late '50s he began to drink excessively, and there were several instances of physical abuse. "He could have accidentally killed me and not have known about it until the next morning," Jody recalls. When Carson's career pointed him to New York City, the couple tried to reconcile. But Jody saw ominous signs: "When we were unpacking, I found some magazines on the top shelf in his den of men beating up women, chained up and things...
...Creating smaller communities for learning. This would be done by restructuring schools into "houses," or "schools within schools," each consisting of 200 to 300 students; grouping teachers and students together in teams; and assigning an adviser to each student, so that every child is well known by at least one adult...
Meanwhile, some vintners are searching for distinction in a different way by assigning their top wines proprietary names (the Clos du Bois vineyard's Marlstone, for example). Despite Heitz's Napa Valley pride, his lush, minty Cabernet Sauvignons (typical price: $40) are best known by the names of two farms where the grapes are grown, Martha's Vineyard and Bella Oaks. But for many growers whose wines lack the cachet of Heitz's, new AVAs represent profits and prestige...
China's hard-liners have vilified Wuer and other student protesters as counterrevolutionaries. But those who have known Wuer for years say he never sought to overthrow the government and that he hoped one day to join the * Communist Party. During the protests, he told reporters his aim was to "form a nationwide citizens' organization, like the Polish Solidarity," able to deal "openly and directly" with the government. Though sometimes overconfident, even cocky, he had no history of troublemaking. "He's a good student, he's from a good family, he loves the people, and he loves the country," said...
...then there are the "good Jews," as they are known to their Arab counterparts, a hundred or so Israelis who meet regularly with an equally small number of Palestinians for round-table discussions that have all the naive earnestness of 1960s-style encounter-group sessions. Their meetings are arranged secretly with code words; they debate over coffee and cake in one another's homes; they talk about mistrust and victimization. The Jews recall the Holocaust, the Palestinians the humiliation of Israel's occupation. In common, they all deplore the intransigence of Israel's political leadership...