Word: successful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Simpson knows the problems of inner-city schools firsthand, having grown up in New York City's Harlem. Her public-school teachers were "tough and demanding," she recalls, and steered her to academic success. She was then spotted by "A Better Chance," a privately funded program that selects what she describes as "poor but promising" students for private schools. She attended the Waynflete School in Portland, Me., then enrolled at Sarah Lawrence College...
...program, costing $360,000 annually, appears to be having some success, at least in the disarmament area. In almost a year only six program graduates have been caught again with weapons. (A second offense means expulsion.) Tucker is now devising a plan for a full-time alternative school for students who don't seem able to make it in regular schools. "The alternative school will be the education of the future," he says. "We have to take our schools back. We have...
...female undergraduates. If seminars, externships or special administrators are needed, the College itself should have them. To ask anything less of the College is to excuse it for failing to become a place where women can compete on an equal footing with men--or to fail to acknowledge its success in becoming such a place. Either is unfair to both Harvard and its women...
...what happened on Oct. 19? Basically the scheme was undone by its own success. When the stock market began to dive, all the portfolio insurers started selling futures at once. As the price of the futures collapsed, the stocks followed suit. That triggered further selling by the portfolio insurers, reinforcing the downward spiral. One of the biggest, Wells Fargo, sold $1.6 billion in futures on Black Monday alone. This was more than the market could absorb. Says Capital's Kirby: "It's like a guy driving into a parking lot with the Queen Mary and asking, 'How come these guys...
...week. Spiegelman's tale is a hellish metaphor for history; Miller's is an evocation of pop apocalypse. Spiegelman draws simply, with calculated primitivism, while Miller is a boisterous stylist whose pictures dazzle, pummel, streak past the eye. The books have nothing in common except their success and a term that has been coined to describe them and others that are breaking off the newsstands and comic specialty shops and invading bookstores: graphic novels...