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More substantive changes are afoot. The ouster of Margaret Honecker, wife of deposed leader Erich Honecker, as Minister of Education put an end to a compulsory "civics" course heavily freighted with Communist Party dogma. In its place is a social-studies curriculum called Gesellschaftskunde, which encourages teachers and students to range over all sorts of topics. Recently, pupils spent an hour pondering "personal happiness." "It's such a new situation," says Uwe Klauke, 22, a trainee physics teacher. "We know so little about self-reliance and developing your own values. But I think inhibitions are breaking down...
Whatever the fears and doubts at Dzerzhinsky, they are overshadowed by new freedoms. When the town council named a woman with ties to the Communist Party as replacement for the retiring headmaster, the faculty rebelled and put up its own candidate: Barbel Dudelitz. The embarrassed appointee withdrew, and Dudelitz handily won in a balloting of teachers that excluded council members. As soon as she is confirmed, Dudelitz, who under the old regime was not allowed to travel abroad, hopes to make a lifetime dream come true: a language-study tour of Britain...
Even for seasoned veterans of gory movies, some of the deaths are a bit too much--one bad guy gets his eye put out by an icicle. And for the sake of realism, the same blood Willis gets on his hands from his first killing stays on him for the rest of the movie. In every scene, Willis just gets messier and messier, and by the end of the picture, bits of brain are dripping...
...shopowners said that without better response from police, they may be forced to put up iron bars, a step they say they fear would hurt the Square's physical appearance...
...think that as I've gotten older, I have put the Sox' problems in the proper perspective. I do actually enjoy going to games when the Red Sox lose. I have no trouble watching a game without slamming my fist down. And, though it opened a few healing wounds, I must confess that I hardly resisted the opportunity to relive the 1986 fiasco through Roger Angell's Season Ticket...