Word: learned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they settled into the first weeks of the semester, there were many surprises. At Middlebury, Sergey Plyasunov, 22, has discovered what it is like to study the Soviet Union "from the other side." Says he: "I find out things that I didn't learn in my own country about the highest powers like Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev." Not all the teaching goes unchallenged. At Wheaton, Sabyrova takes issue with an American textbook that describes the Soviet economy as entirely planned. "It is wrong," she insists. "With economic reform there are a lot of changes in our country." Meanwhile at Oberlin...
...that costs $50 a week seems the impossible dream. But in Edison, N.J., such a place exists: in a corner of the Heller Industrial Park is the John Kenney Child Care Center, where 84 children, from 18 months to 5 years old, play with toys, career down slides and learn to spell and share. Says Bruce Oakley, whose daughter Laura, 4, attends the center: "This is not a place where you just dump the kid off. It's great...
...first four women's silvers went to two Chinese, a Costa Rican and a Rumanian, while a French gamine named Catherine Plewinski was a tick away with a bronze in the 100 free. The once-every-four-years fan wonders, When did all these people learn to swim...
...secular society, many are willing to make that sacrifice, and Judaism must learn to live with it, in the view of many liberal rabbis. "Any way you look at it, intermarriage is an inevitable consequence of an open society," says Eugene Mihaly, vice president of Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati. "A very high percentage of Jewish young people go to college and at a marriageable age come in contact with non-Jewish students. It's only natural that some of them should fall in love." The best course, he maintains, is to welcome the influx, through marriage, of seekers, some...
Bush should also learn that there are some situations where brazen lies and intentional deceptions won't work. I'm referring to Barbara Bush. Does anyone really believe Barbara Bush is out there in the ghettos, teaching youngsters how to read? Does anyone really think that George walks around the vicepresidential living room, slapping Barbara on the butt after a tremendous meal? Bush's familial affections just don't match up to Dukakis' loving relationship with his wife. He shouldn't even try to compete...