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Today, unfortunately, this displacement lives on in many ways. One of Woodson’s most telling comments is that the “mere imparting of information is not education.” Education is not a victim of history; instead, it has the power to mold ideas, values, beliefs and perceptions. Because most academic disciplines were developed when blacks were seen as subhuman and unworthy of consideration, much of the content we read today has grown out of that context and cannot be divorced from it. A people whose history had almost been completely overlooked by scholars...
...manhandled the Tigers (6-13-1, 4-9-0) inside their own zone, Harvard’s second line forced a turnover just beyond the Princeton crease. Sophomore Ryan Maki corralled the loose puck, then dished to Steve Mandes, who tucked his backhand effort inside the right post a mere 37 seconds in, giving the Crimson a 1-0 lead...
...catastrophes, slammed the U.S. for providing only 15? of assistance per $100 of income. Sachs stated that raising the level of U.S. assistance to 70? would save millions of lives. How ludicrous! Such an increase could only lead to widespread corruption among the bureaucracies handling the assistance; a mere trickle of aid would reach those who need it most. What the rich countries can do is unilaterally remove the trade quotas and restrictions on goods and services that poor nations can provide to rich countries, thus directly enriching the people of underdeveloped countries. That type of assistance would be more...
...born, grow up and have babies of her own; enough time to span a real historical era. He took to the air in 1962, weeks before the Cuban missile crisis. He departed in 1992, just months after the breakup of the Soviet Union. The greatest Presidents have mere administrations. Johnny Carson had a reign...
...fine work in the modernist vein, like his own Glass House. But modernism's refusal of historical reference made him restless. In 1984, with his Chippendale-topped AT&T building in Manhattan, he proclaimed himself postmodern. He was capable of very good buildings, like Pennzoil Place in Houston, and mere concoctions, like so many of his later-life office towers. And for a while in the 1930s his enthusiasms included fascism, a nasty episode of which he later repented. In a long, nimble career, his only constant was change. --By Richard Lacayo...