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...having some influence. Educators are beginning to reconsider teaching methods in order to take advantage of women's sense of relationship. For example, at the Emma Willard School, the entire curriculum has been revised to emphasize cooperative learning rather than individual competition and to encourage girls to analyze and express ideas from their own perspective rather than parrot back the accepted dogma. In psychology, distant, impersonal therapists are gradually giving way to more empathic and active listeners who are better able to help women scarred by battering or sexual abuse...
SOPHOMORE year I became involved in attempting to reinvigorate the Conservative Club along tolerant, reasonable lines. But while I struggled to find acceptance and a way to express my views without becoming a pariah, the Mather Incident occurred, and political discourse on campus has not been the same since...
...Lincoln, Kerrey received an early baptism in political discourse around the dinner table. The discussions "were always issue-oriented," recalls his sister, Jessie Rasmussen. "Never partisan. To this day I don't know if our parents were Republicans or Democrats." The younger Kerreys were taught by example to express and adhere to their beliefs. Before the 1960 presidential election, a dinner guest argued heatedly that if John Kennedy won, the Pope in reality would be running the country. When James Kerrey, Bob's father, persistently rejected the notion, the angered guest bolted out of the house...
Freud hoped that his mind science would teach people how to love and to work. Like most great notions, this one is simple to express but difficult to realize. Just how difficult is the subject of Richard Rhodes' account of his deprived childhood and struggle to escape its consequences. It is a story of modest dimensions but classic proportions, involving orphans, a wicked stepmother, lifesaving benefactors and years of psychoanalysis. It is a story that is painful to read and hard to put down...
...like to express our regret," declared the editorial in last week's Wall Street Journal worldwide, "that we are suspending our remaining circulation in the Republic of Singapore." Daily copies of its Asian edition sold in the bustling Southeast Asian city-state, the piece noted, had already < been cut by official edict from 5,000 to just 400. A new Singapore press law requiring foreign publications to be licensed annually and to post a deposit against legal judgments makes clear that "what the government of Singapore wants is for the foreign press to practice self-censorship," the editorial continued...