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...most condescending manner, Begin urged his opponent to be calm ("Sit down and be quiet, Mr. Peres, and teach yourself some precision") and defended his spotty economic record as well as he could-a claimed 13.5% rise in real wages during his four years in office. (Understandably, he said nothing about Israel's 130% inflation rate...
Most Maryknoll priests and nuns still work alongside peasants in the fields, teach the basics of nutrition and child care, build schools and houses, dispense medical care or develop cottage industries and cooperative farms. But starting with a 1966 policy statement, the society also began emphasizing the need for change in social systems and the rallying of oppressed groups to demand their civil and economic rights. One priest explains the shift: "The church is no longer only involved in giving the campesinos plows and tools, but in making them conscious of their situation...
Others of the grandes écoles date back to the French Revolution. The most illustrious is the Ecole Normale Supérieure, which was founded in 1794 to "teach morals and shape the hearts of young republicans for the practice of private and public virtue." Only some 400 students a year are accepted. Among its graduates: Louis Pasteur, Jean-Paul Sartre, Georges Pompidou. Prior to World War II the school also produced such socialist luminaries as Jean Jaures and Léon Blum...
DIED. Zerna Sharp, 91, former first-grade teacher in La Porte, Ind., who created the concept for the Dick and Jane textbooks that for more than four decades helped teach American schoolchildren to read ("See me run. See Spot run. Oh, oh! This is fun."); in Frankfort, Ind. Sharp's simple, repetitive prose telling of an archetypal middle-class family with its dog, Spot, and cat, Puff, came under fire from feminists in the early 1970s for stereotyping Jane as subordinate to Dick. "It never bothered the children," replied Sharp. "That's all an adult's viewpoint...
...problem is visible in foreign trade. To be a successful exporter it is necessary to speak the languages of the countries to which you wish to sell your products. Foreign firms are willing to pay to teach their employees the languages that they need to be salesmen abroad. American firms generally are not. The differences show how long they expect their employees to remain on the payroll...