JAIME ESCALANTE

“The Escalante Equation” presents the reader with a dilemma. The caption under Jaime Escalante’s photograph on Page 25 refers to one of his instructors in Bolivia as “a priest who told dirty jokes.” On reading the body of the article, one learns that the teacher who told the “dirty jokes” was not a priest but rather “a sour-tongued Chilean layman named Lincoyan Portus . . . . (who) would begin each class with a story, usually obscene.”

LILLIAN TOSCAS

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