Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discipline is no longer a matter of rulers on knuckles, but rather the prospect of getting ahead in the world. "I told my mother I wanted to come here because I wanted to learn and be somebody," says Albert Calderon, 15, a sophomore at Cardinal Hayes. His mother, Mirtha Astacio, is a cleaning woman, and her brother helps her pay the tuition. Albert's aspiration: "I want to be what you call a boss...
...developed by Dr. Deborah Prothrow-Stith, the state's public health commissioner, that tries to teach them how to discharge anger without resorting to violence. The school also uses scare-tactic "field trips." At Boston's Charles Street jail, for instance, students talk to inmates about prison life and learn that offenders as young as 14 can be tried as adults in Massachusetts. Explains Tucker: "It's a way of letting these kids know that the customary smack on the hand is going to stop...
Anthony Romano '90, who is currently working with the after-school program and plans to continue this summer, said he helps the refugee children because "acquiring English skills is the key to being acclimated to the American culture." The benefits are not one-sided, he added. "I hope to learn from them as much as they learn from...
...water on silk as Chinese and Japanese masters had done for millenniums. When the Tokyo School of Fine Arts opened in 1887,its American co-founder, the "Boston bonze" Ernest Fenollosa, insisted that it teach only traditional Japanese techniques. But by 1896 most of its students were petitioning to learn oil painting, and a Western department had to be set up; thereafter, it was the most popular part of the school...
Israeli political leaders are beginning to learn a different lesson, best expressed by Minister of Economics Gad Yaacobi, a Labor Party member: "The true sources of the recent events are the pent-up fury and hatred of 20 years of occupation, the swelling frustration over diplomatic stagnation, and the sense of impotence and hopelessness stemming from this." Added Ezer Weizman, a former Defense Minister and Likud bloc member who recently defected to Labor: "If we do not advance now toward a political solution the situation will only deteriorate rapidly...