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Pollack, a clinical psychologist who teaches at Harvard Medical School, says most schools are failing boys by forcing them into an "educational straitjacket." Elementary schools lack male teachers, "sending a message to boys that learning is primarily for girls." Young boys, he claims, learn at different tempos, and perhaps the cutoff birth month for starting school should be later for boys than for girls. Once there, boys should be allowed to move around more, taking short recesses when they are restless. They should be able to use computers rather than be forced to write by hand before their small-motor...
...husband's urging, she was hospitalized in a psychiatric unit, dosed with Thorazine and given shock therapy. When she got out of the straitjacket, she dumped Jones and married a fellow patient with a drinking and gambling problem. She apparently hadn't yet developed her keen knack for character judgment. Faye lost custody of Michelle in court because she was certifiable now, tagged with crazy papers for life. But you don't put a foot to Billie Faye's neck without her biting your leg, so she grabbed Michelle and ran. The hell with the courts. She ran for Michelle...
...Carlisle had become the focus of intense international attention. President Clinton phoned to congratulate the new mother. "You know," he said, "when those kids all go off to school...you will be the best-organized manager in the U.S." (Her reply: "That, or I will be in a straitjacket somewhere...
...horrendous crime to make a Xerox of someone," argues author and science critic Jeremy Rifkin. "You're putting a human into a genetic straitjacket. For the first time, we've taken the principles of industrial design--quality control, predictability--and applied them to a human being...
...obsession, presumably born in his childhood memories of a prostrate China and his adult humiliation during the Cultural Revolution, was to undo the crimes and stupidities of the Cultural Revolution, break the communist ideological straitjacket and unleash, as he put it, the creative energy of China. His opposition to superstition and ideology, plus his hostility to the Soviet Union, made him seem more liberal than he was. Deng did not believe his nation could be governed democratically--at least not in this century. Sadly, Tiananmen is part of his legacy...