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Eight years ago, when I was a senior in college, I started Teach For America because I was convinced that a national teacher corps of America's most talented individuals could fundamentally change our country--by ensuring that more of our nation's young people have the opportunity to attain an excellent education, and by influencing the consciousness of a corps of individuals who will ultimately be among our nation's leaders...
Surely, the story I have told about Kevin doesn't incorporate his disappointments, namely his failure to attain the external achievement that the preprofessional student body both in the '80s and today (myself included) has intensely craved. At his upcoming 15th reunion, Kevin will surely not be blind to the inevitable comparison with others in his class, his roommates (one an arbitrageur), his acting buddies, the guy down the hall, the girl from section. Will it make a difference to him whether his life lacks the traditional accoutrements of American success? If it does, will that outweigh the benefits gained...
...Jordan's Bulls play, or without the University of North Carolina (sounds like a state school to me). Indeed, even Binswanger went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology--he was dependent on the state, too. But, no Objectivist would ever admit to people's dependence on one another to attain great heights...
...desire to offer women equal rights in the U.S. armed services [NATION, Nov. 25], we seem to have lost sight of the main purpose--to attain difficult military objectives against strong enemies with maximum efficiency and minimum loss of American lives. The armed services have made a good attempt at enlisting both sexes in these goals, but the losses exceed the gains. EDWARD J. KINGSBURY Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts...
Thank you for the concise yet detailed picture of the choice between Bob and Bill. In the frenzy of the 30-second sound bites and campaign ads we were subjected to on TV, it was rather difficult to attain a meaningful electoral perspective that reached beyond the next round of the assaults on our intelligence. Your piece did justice to the presidential race. STEVE LEVINSKY San Diego...