Word: finaling
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...that people don't learn more concrete lessons at Harvard. Members of Harvard's nine final clubs learn to be sexist, elitist snobs. Writers for rightwing publications learn new ways to rationalize their irrational hatred of homosexuality. Junior professors learn to take out short-term leases on their homes...
Israelis would prefer to have real gas masks now, and are angrily debating whether the government should release its huge civilian stockpiles. The issue is dividing the leadership. "The masks were intended for these times," insists Foreign Minister David Levy. Shamir and Arens apparently disagree, and have postponed a final decision, fearing that any such move would cause panic or convince Baghdad that Israel is preparing to attack...
...first glance, the book seems unlikely to send anyone to the educational barricades. It is a laborious statistical analysis of the crisis in public education. But in their final two chapters, Chubb and Moe suddenly transform themselves into radical deconstructionists. They theorize that "excessive bureaucratization and centralization are no historical accident . . . They are inevitable consequences of America's institutions of democratic control." The more political pressure is exerted to improve the schools, they argue, the more bureaucracy is created to monitor the new reform nostrums. In their view, only a choice system that frees the schools from political pressures entirely...
...federal budget deficit by illustrating it with photos of naked men and women. Weingarten's hiring, says Downie, is an example of his goal of surrounding himself with visionary editors: "I hire lots of people who are smarter than I am, and I act as a catalyst." Still, the final question that will have to be answered by the Downie regime is whether the Post can flourish without a single controlling vision at the top. Says Robert Kaiser, 47, who came in second to Downie in the race for Bradlee's spot and will become deputy managing editor in September...
Whatever Bush's final strategy, Souter himself appears willing to join the battle straight-up. He apparently realizes that regardless of where a nominee stands on an issue, a candidate for the high court owes the nation an account of why he stands there. Some people who are close to Souter say he has already decided to discuss the right to privacy on which Roe rests. Many conservatives (and some liberals, including the late Justice Hugo Black) insist privacy is an invented liberty without constitutional foundation. Let Souter second Black, if that be his position, and then echo those liberal...