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HERE in Lima it is still easy to find pirated tapes of Chilean folksinger Victor Jara. Author of lyrics like "Liberate our people from the dominion of the exploiter," he was one of the thousands forced by the Chilean army into the Santiago soccer stadium during the 1973 overthrow of Socialist Salvador Allende. In the stadium with his guitar, Jara began to sing some of his most popular songs; the waiting crowd joined in. The soldiers grabbed him, pulled away his guitar, and chopped off his hands--challenging him to "Try playing now" before killing him. The crowd watched, then...
Along with University of Chicago professor and best-selling author Allan Bloom, Bennett is laying plans to establish a summer institute aimed at reforming college curricula and exposing undergraduates to the "great books...
...idea of a summer institute for undergraduates that would promote the study of classical Western thought first arose over a year ago when Bennett was having dinner with Bloom. Bloom, a mordant critic of higher education and author of the best-selling The Closing of the American Mind, and Bennett agreed that it was time to find a new way to bring back more traditional curricula on college campuses...
Perry once asked her freshman English teacher at a small private school, "Can we read something by a Black author?" The teacher responded, "The purpose of this course is to study our language and our culture." Perry soon left that private school...
Heinsohn is a former NBA player and coach with the Boston Celtics. He is in the NBA Hall of Fame. He is also, most recently, an author. His autobiography, "Give 'Em the Hook," written with Boston Herald sportswriter Joe Fitzgerald, is now in bookstores...