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After putting down The Discipline of Hope, master educator Herbert Kohl's memoir of his thirty-year plight to reorganize education in the United States from the ground up, one can't help but wonder how to categorize the work. Is it a disheartening account of the state of public schools in New York and California, a disparaging, almost Biblical example of a pedagogue martyred for his outspoken support for children's rights, or the uplifting autobiography of a man who turned the complacent public education system on its ear? The simplest answer is that it is a synthesis...
...Kohl outlines his complete career, beginning with his first teaching assignment in the New York City public school system, and ending up at the experimental high school he founded in California. Along the way, he directs attention to each of his students on a case-by-case basis. Kohl relinquishes center stage to his students on several occasions, reinforcing the impression that his relationship with the children who pass through his classroom reaches beyond the year they spend with him. Kohl states with great pride that several of his classes referred to him as Uncle Herbie, and with good reason...
...flow to Wall Street. Mergers proliferated wildly, mostly, it seemed, for the enrichment of a few financial manipulators--novelist Tom Wolfe's Masters of the Universe. Moralists bemoaned what they saw as a sanctification of greed--not only in the U.S. but also in Margaret Thatcher's Britain, Helmut Kohl's West Germany and, of all places, Red China. But unlike in the irrationally exuberant 1920s, disaster did not strike. Though stocks fell even faster on Oct. 19, 1987, than they had in 1929, they bounced back higher than ever, setting the stage for what could soon become the longest...
BONN: The momentum building behind Gerhard Schroeder, the charismatic centrist candidate for chancelor of Germany?s opposition Social Democrats, has Helmut Kohl?s ruling Christian Democratic Union (CDU) battling to reposition itself ?- and journalists reaching for the Tony Blair analogy...
...limits: ?While Schroeder would like nothing more than to be likened to Blair, the major difference is that the Christian Democrats are not the Tories,? says Bonfante. ?Where Blair faced a decrepit and unpopular party, the CDU is still a strong and vigorous political force.? And Chancellor Kohl is no Prime Minister Major. As Schroeder's four predecessors found, it's none too easy to write off the West?s longest-serving leader...