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However, Bok is correct to point out that an American liberal arts education fails to examine meaningfully cultures other than its own. Bok's proposal to send more Harvard students overseas would be a more effective means of addressing this problem. If turned into a graduation requirement that demanded evidence...

Author: By John C. Yoo, | Title: A Foreign Education | 7/31/1987 | See Source »

Anyone who doubts that the Constitution is a living thing that changes and evolves should think about the difference between the document then and now. As framed 200 years ago, the Constitution was virtually paranoid on the subject of democracy. James Madison wrote in The Federalist about his view of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ark of America | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

The law of the land evolves, sometimes from grotesque early versions. In its Dred Scott decision in 1857, the Supreme Court declared that blacks do not have the rights of citizens. The law has been changed at barricades, in the streets, by a procession of Americans like John Brown, Rosa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ark of America | 7/6/1987 | See Source »

The impetus for the proposed merger came from Fred Currey, a Dallas entrepreneur who bought Greyhound Lines from the Phoenix-based Greyhound Corp. in March. Soon after the purchase, Currey, who had been chief executive of Trailways during the 1970s, began negotiations to acquire his old firm as well. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: All Aboard Greyhound will buy Trailways | 6/29/1987 | See Source »

The most striking of these, Vidal claims, is Teddy Roosevelt, who parlays ; the inflated Hearstian ballyhoo about his heroics on San Juan Hill into a political career that eventually, after McKinley's assassination in 1901, lands him in the White House. Empire is, to put it mildly, not kind to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Veneer of the Gilded Age EMPIRE | 6/22/1987 | See Source »

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