Word: parente
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's safe to say that we'll be able to provide the protection we require for the people we protect and still be able to accomodate most if not all of the events of parent's weekend," Sloan said...
There is something heroic in this domestic image. Alone in the dark, facing his fears, the modern-day parent is a rugged individual of a new sort. We would be wrong to think of this sort of person as an unreflective suburbanite, locked into pre-fab group-think. While we may not ride out into the sunset alone anymore, there is a contemporary heroic individualism that deserves our respect...
...image of American individualism is changing from the lone cowboy on the range to the lone parent at a Promise Keeper gathering. New York Times reporter Michael Janofsky describes this tendency in Monday's "At Mass Events, Americans Looking to One Another." Citing the recent Million Woman March to Philadelphia, the gathering of the Promise Keepers and the Million Man March, Janofsky argues that the mass events of today "propose solutions based on changing the individual rather than changing government policy." Throughout the piece, Janofsky stresses the role of the individual in these mass movements...
...wonderful when bad schools can be fixed just through parent and community involvement. When those things aren't present--and they aren't always--the bad schools still need to be fixed, because otherwise the students who go to them won't learn and will be doomed to lives of poverty. Two things are required, both of which Americans are heavily invested in believing we don't need in education: government money and external government control...
...statement was supported by councillors Kenneth E. Reeves '72 and Michael A. Sullivan as well as school committee member E. Denise Simmons; the city's lesbian/gay parent liaison, Emmie Howe; and the Cambridge Lavender Alliance, a local bisexual, gay and lesbian advocacy group...