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...that he was "just too worldly." After graduation he enrolled at Bob Jones College, a Bible boot camp in Tennessee where hand holding was forbidden, and dating was limited to chaperoned chats in a public parlor. Between the rules and the course work, Graham soon found himself on the brink of expulsion and thought about transferring. The legendary Jones warned him about throwing his life away: "At best, all you could amount to would be a poor country Baptist preacher somewhere out in the sticks." Then he tempted him. "You have a voice that pulls," he told the young...
Especially lately. Last month, 50 former and present Expository Writing teachers testified in the pages of The Crimson that their department stifled internal dissent, served students poorly and, on a day-to-day basis, teetered on the brink of chaos. As his official response, Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell wrote to reassure these teachers that he would ignore the student newspaper report in which their complaints were aired. "I wanted...to assure you," he wrote, "if assurance be needed, that its reportage has neither expressed nor influenced the views of University Hall on the subject [of Expos...
Korea has been called a "little dragon" and the "next Japan," a country poised on the brink of economic superpower status. But this notion has blinded some observers to the fact that at many levels, Korea remains a backward country. For starters, the military controlled the presidency for 32 often brutal years from...
...brink of chaos, Ukraine has already made major concessions to Moscow. An original, though reluctant, member of the C.I.S., it has agreed to tighter economic coordination within the Commonwealth, and has surrendered the entire Black Sea Fleet to the Russian Navy. Now, special Russian access to Ukraine's Black Sea ports and Ukraine's acceptance of the Russian-dominated C.I.S. security treaty seem only a matter of time...
...Clinton has done a lot to create the current danger of isolationism by repeatedly focusing on domestic issues to the exclusion of crucial international obligations. He now must commit to an active foreign policy and pull us back from the brink of isolationism...