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Iran's revolution enters a new, secular phase as Ayatullah Khomeini and the mullahs are pushed aside. There is a power struggle-possibly even civil war-between various factions. Leftists, perhaps self-avowed Marxists, come out on top, but the unrest continues. Separatist Kurds stir up more trouble than ever from bases in Iraq and in NATO ally Turkey. Muslim militants declare a holy war on the godless Marxists and take to the hills. An embattled government in Tehran appeals to Moscow for help, and the Soviet Union accuses NATO of interfering in Iran's internal affairs. Authorities...
...times, Mazlish and Diamond descend from the simplistic into the banal. In various parts of the book, the authors compare Carter to DeGaulle, Gandhi, the young Luther (a la Erik Erikson) Oliver Cromwell and Handsome Lake, a Seneca Indian who had a series of revelations that led to his belief in his own leadership. Where other presidents are heroes or policy-makers, Carter belongs in the ranks of "revitalizers." Bear with the authors' dangling prose...
...math sections and a test of standard written English, holds a predominant position in the testing market. ETS controls well over half the entire testing market, which includes such tests as the Law School Aptitude Test (LSAT), the Graduate Record Examination (GRE), the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), and various professional tests such as bar examinations. Because of its leading role in the testing industry, ETS, which takes in nearly $90 million a year, has been the center of much of the controversy and criticism associated with testing...
...mother cashed in two $25 savings bonds, and he became the first member of his family in anyone's memory to attend college. The scholarship never materialized, but a dedicated journalism teacher named Hugh Cunningham virtually adopted Rather, found him odd jobs (he made 40? an hour doing various chores, including announcing, at a local radio station) and drilled him constantly on the fundamentals of newsgathering. "He had the ambition to go to the top," says Cunningham, now an assistant to the president of the University of Florida. "I always felt...
...City for a look at how the economy is shaping up in light of Jimmy Carter's proposed new budget for fiscal year 1981. The view ahead was hardly encouraging. At almost every turn, the economists found the budget bloated with new spending, much of it camouflaged by various forms of financial and fiscal prestidigitation. They saw the economy itself remaining dangerously inflated, yet in a fundamental sense growing weaker and less productive as the year progresses. Summed up Board Member Beryl Sprinkel: "The budget is far more expansionary than is consistent with anti-inflation policy...