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...National College Guide: America's Top Liberal Arts Colleges, published in 1991 and revised in 1993, Harvard was not included, due to the core's deficiencies. And in September, 1990, Caleb Nelson '88 wrote of Harvard's Core curriculum in The Atlantic, "The Core curriculum illustrates the futility of trying to teach students to think like scientists, for instance, without bothering to teach them much science...
This plot-centered approach can hurt the novel in subtle and not-so-subtle ways. The Alienist, Caleb Carr's best seller about a serial killer on the loose in 1890s New York City (read by Edward Herrmann), makes an engrossing 4 1/2-hour tape. What is left out, however, is a good deal of the historical atmosphere, as well as many details of the laborious murder investigation. As a result, catching this serial killer seems as easy as a jog around Central Park...
...Caleb Carr's shrewd and amiable entertainment The Alienist (Random House; 496 pages; $22) is a good psychological thriller, but what makes it exceptional is that it is also a remarkable time-machine voyage. Carr sets us down in New York City -- yes, there's the American Museum of Natural History right where it belongs, at 79th and Central Park West -- but the date is 1896, a year poised more delicately than most between past and future. Horses still pull cabs, but telephones are fairly common. New York is still a rowdy port city, but finance has replaced shipping...
...Harvard's stature and the media's lavish praise have made the Core one of the most influential curricula in America, but it is hollow," continued Caleb Nelson '88, who is currently a third-year student at Yale Law School...
...probably the most suppressed newspaper in America," says Dan Rodden, whose Caleb Campaign publishes Issues and Answers. "In the schools today there is definitely a religious and philosophical bent that is anti- Christian. Little children, by the time they're in second grade, know that God is illegal." The issue of prayer in the classroom arouses even greater passions. If public schools allow teachers to lead students in prayer, it looks very much like an endorsement of religion, and it is hard to imagine that a child would not feel pressured into joining in. Particularly in deeply religious communities, atheist...