Posts tagged 1980s
Daly: Easter night mayhem evokes scarier times
Apr 7th
Michael Daly
Tuesday, April 6th 2010, 4:00 AM
The back of the police wagon opened outside Manhattan Criminal Court and the first of the accused marauders stepped out in pants that hung so low his red boxers were almost fully exposed.
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Stand and Deliver Revisited (Jaime Escalante)
Apr 1st
Thanks to the popular 1988 movie Stand and Deliver,many Americans know of the success that Jaime Escalante and hisstudents enjoyed at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles.during the 1980s, that exceptional teacher at a poor public schoolbuilt a calculus program rivaled by only a handful of exclusiveacademies.