Word: program
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...letting kids work 30 hours a week after school, even if grades suffer and half a dozen are asleep in many a first-period class, in the belief that this is training for the "real world"? Is it worth busing 161 black kids in from St Louis, in a program that provides the school district where they go an extra $2 million in state aid, if parents and some teachers quietly argue that because of busing, overall achievement has fallen? Is it worth turning the principal and her deputies into sentries, equipped at all times not with books or rulers...
...cherished most had been turned against them: safety and security became insularity and complacency, their sense of propriety came off as snobbery, their prosperity as materialism. People were livid, and some still are. Chicago correspondent Stacy Perman tracked down several who were there during the filming. Most recall the program as "a hatchet job" but concede that it had its points. "Looking back," says Doug Wheeler, class of '67 and now an emergency-room doctor in Jefferson City, Mo., "there was more truth to it than we wanted to admit at the time...
...best-selling books. Last week BREENA CLARKE, who since 1985 has worked for a series of TIME editors, had her first novel, River, Cross My Heart, selected for Oprah's book club. "I wrote it while working full time," says Clarke, who now administers Time Inc.'s editorial-diversity program. "I used weekends and nights, and it always helped when editors took vacations." After Oprah's announcement, the novel shot up Amazon.com's best-seller list. Says current boss, Time Inc. executive editor Jose Ferrer: "My wife warned me that now I'll be working for Breena." Don't worry...
Academic reputation, of course, matters more than male bonding. "I came here in spite of it being all male," says a student who was lured by the demanding pre-med program. But for the time being, Wabash is reaping the rewards of being true to its gender...
...separation to work, it needs to be well defined. Constance Ahrons, director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Training program at the University of Southern California, says "structured separations" tend to be the most productive. Couples facing separation do best if they can come together to establish some basic ground rules first. They should mutually agree on the length of the separation--Ahrons says three to six months is average--and both must continue to work on their own problems during that time, with or without a counselor...