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...over the Faculty deanship that a wholesale review of undergraduate education began, one in which Bok has participated as a member of the committee coordinating Rosovsky's seven task forces. Steiner says that Bok believed no such review could occur before the Pusey-era splits had healed, creating a consensus that would allow the Faculty to focus its energies on undergraduate education. In addition, Bok's readings of educational reviews done elsewhere and his staff's investigations revealed, Steiner says, that the innovations "appeared glamorous on the face of it but weren't working. The last reason Derek would propose...
Glazer argues that in the name of the best of causes liberals in and outside Government have resorted to a coercion without precedent in U.S. history. The author was an eager participant in the liberal consensus that brought about the epochal 1964 Civil Rights Act. In an attempt to correct centuries of injustice toward minorities, the bill banned discrimination in education, employment, voting. But the same law^ Glazer reminds readers, prohibited busing or preferential hiring to achieve racial balance. Not long after it was signed, however, zealous bureaucrats and activist judges began adopting these very devices to attain a mathematically...
Bateson and Jaeger held an evaluation meeting in which the general consensus was that the trip had been a success, and the International School deserved to continue indefinitely. Jaeger promised an alumni reunion at some future date aboard a cruise ship and suggest a short two-week excursion through the Caribbean...
Urso, a stocky consensus All-American for what seems the last century, spent the afternoon trying to defy the laws of physics by threading his swarthy body through hordes of defenders. He was no match for Cornell's lax trio. And eventually, the laws of Mother Nature caught up to him in the form of an immoveable object. In the waning seconds, three riders converged on Urso, who was trying to advance the ball upfield, and put him flat on his face, a la Richard Dunn. Urso never saw McEneaney feed French for the Big Red's final tally...
...domestic issues, MacBride called for the repeal of all victimless crime laws. "We should allow all consensus sexual activities, straight, gay or pay, and repeal all laws relating to ingestion of any substance," he said, adding that the state should neither prevent nor subsidize abortions...