Word: likes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Like others at Harvey Milk, Goldhaber is angry about what public schools do to problem kids. "I had a girl who had been told she was stupid at math and refused to study it. I begged her. I said, 'Please, please, please,' until she agreed. Now math is the first thing she wants to do. Other teachers promoted them, but subject matter left them behind...
...celebrating the centenary of democracy in Costa Rica two weeks ago. He accused the contras of murderous ambushes, and as a result, he was thinking of canceling the cease-fire. Ortega's announcement visibly angered President George Bush. The "little man in a military uniform," said Bush, had behaved like "an unwanted animal at a garden party...
Actually, Ortega's main motivation may have been domestic politics. Nothing assures votes like a patriotic stance, and the Sandinistas have long fared well by whipping up war fears. Nicaraguans resent dying in this long-drawn-out conflict, and more of them blame the contras than the Sandinistas for the latest surge in countryside attacks...
...images. Other authors may try to improve children with edifying themes or thrill them with shocks; Van Allsburg, a small, shy man of 40, simply taps into their vast reservoir of mystery. "To puzzle children is more interesting to me than to educate or frighten them," he says. "I like to plant a seed that will start a mental process, rather than present...
...insects -- being buffeted inside a garbage disposal and nearly getting cooked in a toaster -- are seen from the angle of the creatures themselves. "If I were an ant looking out from an electrical socket," Van Allsburg explains, "the long slits in which the light poured in would look like 15-ft. doorways hung in space." And so they...