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...luge and bobsled seem to attract the largest number of Olympic eccentrics, many of whom have found the open-minded governing bylaw about nationality conveniently accommodating. For New Yorker George Tucker, a physicist born in Puerto Rico, Calgary actually offered a chance to improve. At his Sarajevo debut in 1984, Tucker shed alarming amounts of skin bouncing off the wall. "I was the luger who dripped blood," Tucker says. The next ( summer he recruited Muniz, who had schemed to represent Puerto Rico as a kayaker. "Misery loves company," explains Muniz. Argentine Ruben Gonzalez, a chemist, claims yet another distinction...
...done things with these kids that no one else could do," boasts Director Franklin Tucker, a former high school assistant principal. His center opened last February after Boston schools suffered a spate of highly publicized violent crimes and a chilling upsurge in weapons -- more than 90 confiscated in one month. Roughly 300 students, ranging in age from eight to 21, have participated...
...teach them how to discharge anger without resorting to violence. The school also uses scare-tactic "field trips." At Boston's Charles Street jail, for instance, students talk to inmates about prison life and learn that offenders as young as 14 can be tried as adults in Massachusetts. Explains Tucker: "It's a way of letting these kids know that the customary smack on the hand is going to stop...
...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...
After a disputed call and some blistering serves from Midshipman Tucker Hite put Navy up, 9-6, Harvard was forced to take a timeout...