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Vol. 017 Issue 009 (September 1 1984)
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••Contents••
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The Continuing Crisis
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O'ROURKE, P.J.
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o Journalism's silly season has made an early arrival. Usually it's not until August that the daily papers are filled with stories about dogs finding lost boys at the ASPCA pound, and...
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Correspondence
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Will John Q. Public stand for this? oEl Salvador President Jose Napoleon Duarte is trotting the globe seeking support for his newly elected government. If he gets some from Moscow, maybe...
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Editorials/Jesse's Baffled/Welcome to America
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Jr, R. Emmett Tyrrell
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JESSE'S BAFFLED Think about the recent Democratic presidential skirmishes. Did "Jewish leaders" set out to make Jesse Jackson "a pariah"? Were critics of the Rev. Jesse Jackson's recent...
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Capitol Ideas/Out of Sight in San Francisco
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American women. The so-called women's movement is nothing more than the feminist movement. Furthermore no reliable polls support NOW's claim that Mr. Mondale's candidacy will be strengthened...
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The Excellence Backlash: Sources of Resistance to Educational Reform
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Finn, Chester E. Jr.
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years in American education, profoundly heartening to those who felt that our schools had gone slack and that one of the most urgent challenges facing the society was to elevate...
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Nuts and Bolts of the Excellence Movement
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Adelson, Joseph; Carper, James C.; Doyle, Denis P.; Fossedal, Gregory A.; Futrell, Mary; Greer, Peter R.; Honig, Bill; Kirp, David L.; Kramer, Rita; London, Herbert I.; Murchison, William; Nathan, Joe; Pearlstein, Mitchell B.; Shanker, Albert; Uzzell, Lawrence A.; Woodson, Robert L.
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JOSEPH ADELSON Among its many other distinctions, Ann Arbor, Michigan is the site of a great research university; ranks first nationally in book sales per capita, and circulates more books...
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Presswatch/Jackson's Victory Tour
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Barnes, Fred
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To be honest, it shouldn't have been much of a lure--the promise of a breakfast with the press hosted by those humorless people who call themselves Sandinistas. They didn't seem like the...
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European Document/The EEC Spectacle
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Cosgrave, Patrick
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drug traffickers he had already promised to release? He must have discovered that reporters had written that a mere 22 Americans represented a failed mission for Jackson. So he sweetened the...
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Eminentoes/The Iron Lady of Collectivism
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Greer, Herb
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ty has served a vital purpose of its founders: It has been the instrument of procuring reconciliation between France and West Germany. The finanCial burdens it has imposed on its members,...
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The Talkies/Confessions of a Critic
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Podhoretz, John
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revenue, administrative favor, and finally of Parliament with its unlimited sovereignty. It becomes the aim of the loser in this contest (Labour is by far the worst in this respect) not just...
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The Evolution of Cooperation
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Tucker, William
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T h i s book is a landmark in social thought. For centuries, centralists and statists have been able to dismiss the doctrine of laissez-faire by saying that nothing will happen if government...
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The Democratic Muse: Visual Arts and the Public Interest
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Main, Thomas
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A good deal of Edward Banfield's hotly debated new book--The Democratic Muse: Visual Arts and the Public Interest--is devoted to a history of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)...
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Strategy and Diplomacy 1870-1945
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Cohen, Eliot A.
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tribute to the development of a competent citizenry. Banfield half anticipates this response in his chapter on the history of the museum. He argues that museums once did try to function...
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Bad News: The Foreign Policy of the New York Times
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Bethell, Tom
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that Wilhelmian Germany was an "appeasable" state, unlike either the United States or France at that time. A state with unlimited goals, which aims for world hegemony, cannot be accommodated,...
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Horace's Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School / Against Mediocrity: The Humanities in America's High Schools
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Turner, John R.
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constructing excuses for those countries that are dominated by it abroad--that is, countries controlled by the Soviet Union. My impression, for what it is worth, is that things have been...
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Love and Death in a Hot Country
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Johnston, George Sim
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social detritus, maintained because people can't think how to get rid of it. If that's the case, the high school will gradually come to be of major interest only to governmental economists...
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Spectator's Journal/Projection
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Breindel, Eric M.
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I n April, as a huge, albeit brief, hue and cry was raised about the use of chemical weapons in the Iran-lraq war, the United States formally asked the Soviet Union to begin talks on a...
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Current Wisdom
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San Francisco Chronicle Poetry and philosophy o f cosmic magnitude deposited right here on the correspondence page o f the San Francisco Chronicle, showcase o f...
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