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Conscience v. Status. The report says that most students express general satisfaction with Cal, yet even these "cannot isolate themselves from nonconformist attitudes and ideas: they react positively or negatively." The nonconformists believe that most American adults, including their teachers, are "sacrificing conscience to the quest for status" and that...
Bob Corris has an obsession. He wants to whip Yale's Mike Buckley in the 200-yard breaststroke even though Buckley swam the fastest time in the East this winter, 2:12.9, which was 8.8 seconds faster than the record Corris set against Princeton. Corris, however, has not been pushed...
In his obsession for absolute power, Osagyefo banned all opposition parties, passed a series of laws empowering him to jail all suspected enemies indefinitely and without trial, declared Ghana a one-party state with himself as perpetual President. He also outlawed strikes and clamped rigid government control over the press...
The result of this obsession with local prerogative has been a series of haphazard, uncoordinated attempts to solve the river's problems, having little relation to the needs of either the Charles or of the other communities downstream. Because local rule is an old Massachusetts tradition (many of these towns...
In the past few weeks, Eisenstadt has pledged compliance with the state's sweeping racial imbalance law, proposed a comprehensive new guidance system, hired a public relations expert to boost the school system's image, and secured adoption of Madison Park as the site for a new campus-type high...