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Writing instructors could equally profit from such changes. Setting a clear dichotomy between the expository writing instructor and the discipline-specific writing instructor would create separate standards for each. In the first semester, the course could adopt a lecture format combined with weekly personal tutorials. The seminar-style classes in use discourages the instructor from really leading the class; the lecture format would permit him or her to play a greater role...

Author: By Hugh G. Eakin, | Title: Rethinking Expos | 10/30/1993 | See Source »

...until those who wield the procreation argument commit themselves to a condemnation of heterosexual couples who--because of either choice or infertility--have no children, their "argument" deserves no discussion. Their failure to denounce childless heterosexual couples (or heterosexual couples who choose to adopt rather than to procreate) suggests that they are merely using the procreation "argument" to mask their bigotry...

Author: By Jordan Schreiber, | Title: Mindless Moralizing | 10/27/1993 | See Source »

FOREIGN AID Thriving markets, Clinton says, are impossible without free trade. Totally free markets are a myth, but the Administration's recent decision to adopt "tied-aid" practices is inconsistent with Clinton's support for NAFTA and for a new, freer global-trade regime. Tied aid forces recipients of U.S. financial help to spend some of the dollars they receive on American goods and services. The U.S. has long criticized Japan, France, Germany and other countries for attaching strings to roughly $6 billion in their foreign assistance in exactly the manner Clinton has now proposed. "There is way too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Political Interest It's All Foreign to Clinton | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

Successful health care reform is pivotal to keeping deficit reduction on track. This will require bipartisan efforts either to accept Clinton's plan in a modified version or to adopt an altered Republican version. Without health care reform, no meaningful deficit reduction will ultimately be accomplished...

Author: By Douglas J. Lanzo, | Title: The Deficit: Who Really Does Care? | 10/15/1993 | See Source »

...cultures by creating mixtures that assimilate the customs of both. This argument is hypocritical. The end purpose of multiculturalism is to promote understanding; its doctrine is to be accepting of all while protecting individual cultural identities. Why not accept whatever mixture of cultures a couple or family decided to adopt...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Until Faith Do Us Part | 10/12/1993 | See Source »

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