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...that weren't enough, some of the Core areas offer courses so narrow in scope as to be ridiculous. For instance, the courses that count for Historical Study B cover the French Revolution, World War I and the Warren Court, 1953-1969. Period. While all of these periods and events are crucial to any person's understanding of specific historical occurrences, simply learning about one of them does not make an educated person. Which leads us to our old conclusion that the Core should allow survey courses like History 10, which teach not only methods but actual facts and dates...
English blames the season's retooling frenzy on the narrow-mindedness of network executives, who she says often feel their job is done once they secure the services of an onscreen superstar for a show. "You have to have a great star," she explains, "but you also need a great concept and really good writers. People were paying more attention to getting stars than other things, and they found out later that no person or group of people can carry a show alone. If you don't deliver with that first episode, audiences won't come back, no matter...
...political leadership of this country should be more visionary than to fall victim to narrow sectarian interests. It is not the absence of assimilatory policies that will cause the disintegration of this country, but their presence. Such policies, overt or covert, will carry with them the implied message of "war" against non-Anglo ethnicities. This may precipitate the formation of an anti-Anglo coalition, thus rending a great schism in our society. Besides its immediate domestic consequences, this would tarnish the American image overseas, sending the United States to the bottom rank of world democracies and weakening the U.S. leadership...
There was the worry, though, that too much tough talk might narrow the gender gap. Clinton could actually widen it by hiring America's favorite female writer, the blockbusting Jane Austen! Eagerly the speechwriters studied her entry...
Mayor Richard Daley's front-line forces in Chicago must have been chosen for immovable heft, men built like trucks. Now they silently palm-smacked their clubs, their eyes as narrow as the slits in an armored car. Most of the convention delegates and dignitaries quartered in the fortress Hilton were at the moment three miles away at the convention hall, preparing to bestow upon poor Hubert Humphrey the nomination he thought would redeem the years of humiliation and corrupting self-abasement he had endured as Johnson's Vice President...