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...come. A year after announcing his intention to retire as host of the Tonight show at the end of his 30th season, Johnny Carson stepped through the curtains at NBC'S Burbank studios for the last four times. He made wisecracks about Dan Quayle, chatted with guests like Tony Bennett and Robin Williams, and modestly accepted a nightly shower of accolades and standing ovations. The sentimental high point came on Thursday night, when Carson's final guest, Bette Midler, plied him with musical tributes, closing the show with a rendition of One for My Baby (and One More...
...lawmakers. But since Los Angeles erupted, a handful of conservative activists among his advisers, led by Housing Secretary Jack Kemp, have been urging the President to fight for new market-oriented, antibureaucratic approaches to poverty -- including programs that Bush himself had halfheartedly proposed in previous budgets. As William Bennett, the former drug policy director for Bush, observed, "If you're going to denounce a set of programs that we've already spent $2.5 trillion on, you'd damn well better have an attractive alternative." Suggestions from these "bleeding-heart conservatives" include...
...defense of multiculturalism frames Gates' on-target attack on the right. The second essay, "The Master's Pieces," opens with a scathing assault on former Secretary of Education William Bennett and cultural critic Allan Bloom '56, chargins that they "symbolize for us the nostalgic return to what I think of as the 'antebellum aesthetic position,' when men were men, and men were white, when scholar-critics were white men, and when women and persons of color were voiceless, faceless servants,...filling brandy snifters in the boardrooms of old boy's clubs...
Gates says in Chapter 2 that the goal must be "to prepare our students for their roles as citizens of a world culture." The ever-defended "West" of Bennett and Bloom is properly conceived as part of a "larger whole" without a gelatinized, fixed canon but with a "porous, dynamic, and interactive" culture...
Despite the heroic efforts of Dartmouth ace Bob Bennett (2-3), the staff sports a dreadful 6.01 ERA. Bennett is the Big Green's only hope to salvage a game...