Word: spending
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...inner city, teachers sometimes forget what a real classroom is like. Learning falls to the back of the scene. Talking, throwing--education becomes a big food fight," says tutor Peter J. Freed '90, who attended an urban public high school in New Haven, Conn., and says he hopes to spend the summer tutoring in the Connecticut prison system. "For a lot of these people, they've never had a teacher interested in them as an individual rather than as someone who should shut...
...Dukakis Administration but also a likely reflection of the peripatetic quality that he would bring to the presidency. "Dukakis would get a lot of things going very fast," says Frank Keefe, the Massachusetts secretary of administration and finance, who has worked for the Governor since 1975. "What he'd spend lots of his time doing is what he likes best: traveling around the country, convening task forces, talking with Governors and mayors, promoting regional economic development." Longtime advisers predict that Dukakis would chafe at the constraints of life in the White House and try to break out of the splendid...
...been married for ten years. Half jokingly, she speculates that her decision not to have children stems from her childhood play with Barbie dolls. "Barbie had a house, a car and a boyfriend, period," she notes. Peters has not been swayed by close friends who have babies. "They spend the first three months staring at the baby. I won't give my life over to that. The Smurfs become your life." Feminist Gloria Steinem, 54, also made a deliberate choice. "I either gave birth to someone else," she explains, "or I gave birth to myself...
Gore pioneered a new way of seeking the nomination by bypassing Iowa and jump-starting a campaign on Super Tuesday. But he seemed to spend more time pondering tactical maneuvers than propounding a vision or message. And a campaign that lives by tactics can die by tactics. Having skipped Iowa, Gore square danced around New Hampshire, a state where his strong environmental record and centrist solidity might have generated support. In the end, he frittered away $430,000 on a halfhearted run that netted a pitiful 7% of the New Hampshire vote. "If we had used some of that money...
Although she will spend this summer--a "summer of freedom" uninterrupted by acting commitments--at a home she bought in Connecticut a few years ago, she does not intend to give up the city. "I can't imagine not living there part of the time...