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...would not be "an ideal of youth and beauty, but a commitment of hard work" that would stress the importance of education, says Turner, who herself works with Boston Partners in Education...
...August from a smoothly run G.O.P. convention. His selection of the energetically gifted Jack Kemp, whom Dole had reviled for years, was widely praised. But Dole's verbal and tactical missteps took their toll, confirming the electorate's fast-hardening negative verdict: Clinton was far from the heroic ideal, but Dole simply wasn't up to the job. Facing the hostility of many women voters, Dole tried modifying his antiabortion stance. He called for a "declaration of tolerance" in the G.O.P. platform's pro-life plank. "That's non-negotiable," he said, but quickly caved in to the party...
...university poses a great threat to liberal education. This threat is hard to perceive at first because it lurks behind what appears most gentle, familiar and just. Yet what is the endless rhapsody about diversity, but really a perverse assertion of our individual incompleteness, ignorance and mutual dependence? The ideal of diversity hates homogeneity and loves heterogeneity, and so disdains the one or the few in order to embrace the many. The diverse university and the diverse curriculum are therefore democratic. But liberal education is anti-democratic, shunning what is vulgar and variegated in order to perfect the few best...
Owing to this pressure, Harvard has already forsaken its motto. It now offers its students a diversely hall-marked experience instead of anything resembling veritas. Truth demands a sobering progression toward it and away from everything else. The heady democratic ideal of limitless experience, by contrast, encourages permanent disorientation, immoderate openness and intransigent immaturity. Once a promiser of maturity, our university is now an apologist for adolescence...
There are things in the compromise that are not what I would wish in an ideal sense," he says, citing the fact that the executive agent will report jointly to Kidd and PBHA...