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...allowed in schools all over the country. The stunning change came upon the insistence of Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev for rapid reform in the education system. "We pin hopes for the future largely on the work of our schools," he told a meeting of the Communist Party Central Committee five months ago. The Soviet people, he said in another speech, must learn history as it really happened (rather than as the party had long told it), "so as not to repeat the mistakes of the past...
...history instructor at Moscow's Middle School No. 109: "If an engineer has never heard Tchaikovsky's music, that is terrible." In addition, teachers will for the first time be given the option to choose among texts and to diversify curriculums, which have long been dictated by the central government. "Three or four years ago, any variations in instruction methods were unthinkable," admits Vladimir Shadrikov, vice chairman of the state education committee. "Now all this has become a reality...
Brinkley, who based much of the book on his own memories of wartime Washington as well as on research done by his son, Alan, a former Harvard history professor, lays out his central thesis early on in the book, namely that Washington stumbled into World War II woefully unprepared to manage it and somehow improvised its way through...
Then the President headed to the bedside of Duarte, the first and most successful of his Central American "freedom fighters." Reagan offered to fly him back to El Salvador and urged Duarte to come by the White House to see him if he was able. It was a sad parting...
...Central to the American character is a litigious mind-set that cannot acknowledge blame without worrying about legal liability. Before the passengers on Flight 655 were even buried, Washington policymakers were locked in a distracting wrangle over whether to pay damages. The questionable notion that some form of monetary compensation to the victims' families could assuage Iran's grief was advanced by House Speaker Jim Wright and Republican Senator John Warner. The Administration has agreed to study the possibility of such payments, and the President is leaning strongly in favor of them. The primary obstacle appears to be political...