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Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Diversity Flourishes On Council | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

Ethnic studies sounds good. It sounds politically correct, interesting, and legitimately academic. It also sounds very, very broad. Exactly a month ago tomorrow, the Minority Students Alliance (MSA) demonstrated in favor of "E.S." outside a lecture given by Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel. Did the MSA and its associated organizations really contemplate how an E. S. department might be formed? The results could take more than a few protesting students by surprise...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: A New General Studies | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...treats its students so poorly? I am speaking specifically about Harvard's housing system, in which students are treated as random objects of varying shapes, sizes and colors which must be evenly distributed among houses. Students are numbers to be arranged at the whim of the great socialized, politically correct arbiter: the Housing Lottery...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Lottery Hurts Students | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...liberal, I am chagrined by this experience. The total burden of all the different taxes actually seems reasonable (if, that is, I have the amounts even approximately correct). But the complications involved in trying to pay them honestly are a disgrace. Yet conservatives should be chagrined as well. A large part of the problem is the need to go through most of the rigmarole twice: once for the federal government and again at the state level. Federalism is traditionally more of a conservative conceit than a liberal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Failed Jobs Program | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

...children were paralyzed by polio, and it tapered off in the early '60s, after the Salk vaccine and then the Sabin oral version were introduced. The first wave of postpolio symptoms appeared in the early 1980s, 30 years after the epidemic's peak, and if researchers are correct, the last wave should subside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reliving Polio | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

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