Word: adler
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...year he published The Paideia Proposal, a manifesto to reform U.S. primary and secondary education by instituting a standard and much more demanding curriculum. When he led the procession to Columbia College's commencement last week, however, the scholar was not there to give the main address. Mortimer Adler, still formidably active at 80, was getting the bachelor of arts degree he was denied in 1923 because he had cut gym classes and could not pass the swimming test...
...Although Adler earned a Columbia Ph.D. in 1928, he was delighted when Columbia offered to waive the swimming requirement and gave him a belated B.A. (Adler was later given a pair of red swimming trunks by longtime friends Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Lauder. Lauder and Adler are on the board of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies.) Acknowledging that it was odd to get a B.A. 55 years after his Ph.D., Adler called the bachelor's a higher degree, "signifying a start in the process of becoming an educated person...
...then jumped from the van with a shotgun and declared he would shoot. As the crowd dispersed, Nienaber fired, shooting Mkhize fatally in the chest. The police claimed that Nienaber acted in self-defense, but public outrage over the killing has swept South Africa. Says Civil Rights Activist Josie Adler: "Saul was not a radical. He just wanted to keep his land...
...potentially dangerous undermining of the ability and willingness of officials to discuss what they learned in Government after they leave it and thus to enlighten public debate on future issues. "This is as close as an American Government has come to implementing an Official Secrets Act," argues Allan Adler, a counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union...