Word: lesson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scare off some 3,000 demonstrators who had taken to the streets of Prague. Wielding truncheons, the police arrested several hundred protesters, including some from Hungary and Poland. Warned the party-owned afternoon daily Veerni Praha: "History cannot be changed. It is necessary to know it and take a lesson...
...Dunne lacked status. His grandfather was a grocer who built himself up to community pillar, and his father was a respected surgeon. Dunne went to Princeton University and perfected talking through his nose, the better to honk down the lower orders. But once a Harp always a Harp, a lesson driven home by another old institution, the U.S. Army. German whores, barracks mates with tattoos, the general cynicism toward military routine, all validated his own outlook. Truth be told -- and Dunne tells it -- he is fascinated by life on the wild side...
...through these two recommendations Friedman relates to the reader what he considers the most important lesson he learned in the region: the Middle Eastern attitude that "tomorrow can be different from yesterday...
...although even the novel's end is colored in Barker's terms, Bernays does not allow him to satisfy all of his desires. But the teacher learns little from his lesson--Barker is content to remain a slime, barely trying to prove himself otherwise...
...main lesson of these states' experiences is that reform works best when those concerned have a say. "Unions, business, educators -- everybody has to be involved," says Joe Fernandez, superintendent of schools for Dade County, Fla. "You've got to forget the turf battles...