Word: america
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...humanities at the University of Arts in Philadelphia, is known for her controversial cultural criticism and her position as an "anti-feminist feminist." But last week she started off her speech by saying that "educational reform is the number one issue of my career," especially the state of America's public school system. One expects such a comment to be followed by talk of school funding, vouchers, busing, bilingual education, the condition of inner city schools, teacher testing, charter schools and other components of the national debate on this subject. Many of these issues did arise in Paglia's speech...
...sounds like a stretch to blame America's educational problems on what is essentially a literary and cultural movement, that's because it is. Paglia's assertion that humanities professors at Harvard are "trying to take away meaning, tell students it's all meaningless"--thus producing that "gnome" effect--simply isn't true. A small fraction of our humanities classes deal with literature produced in the second half of this century, much of which has come to be labeled "postmodern." The aim of these classes, like any others, is to give students a way of understanding and appreciating the material...
...always enjoyed a friendly rivalry with Cambridge, so has Harvard with Yale. Today, however, there is no trace of that but only perfect harmony," Griffin declared in Latin. "No more compelling evidence could exist of the close connections which we in Oxford enjoy with the leading universities of America than the fact that Dr. Neil Rudenstine...
...conference with the boys in Osaka is in 45 minutes. You've got to go through the spreadsheets again, rehearse your talking points and check your e-mail from the lawyers. Why are you lying in bed? Because you can. With 11 million telecommuters in the U.S. today, corporate America is sending a message: stay home. By the year 2000, the number of telecommuters are expected to reach around 30 million as the technology gets even cheaper and makes it easier to hang out and teleconference in your...
...over the Internet is about to take on a whole new shape. Negotiations are still under way, but service-and-content behemoth America Online looks set to snap up Netscape in a $4 billion all-stock deal Monday. Sun Microsystems, also involved in the talks, would take over Netscape's server-end software; AOL would run the popular Netcenter portal and keep the browser itself in safe hands. Right now, AOL has an exclusive contract with Microsoft to distribute Internet Explorer to its 14 million subscribers; that agreement may expire on January 1, 1999. A deal to divide Netscape with...