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...kiss the institution of marriage goodbye. There they were, the very icons of middle- aged cuteness. And here they are now -- sounding like one of the nastier mismatches from The Love Connection. Nor are they alone. Despite countless warnings about how divorce is destroying the very foundations of Western Civ, the U.S. divorce rate remains stuck near 50%, higher than that of any other country that bothers to keep track...
American history, as it was taught to us, began with Columbus' "discovery" of an apparently unnamed, unpeopled America, and moved on to the Pilgrims serving pumpkin pie to a handful of grateful red-skinned folks. College expanded our horizons with courses called Humanities or sometimes Civ, which introduced us to a line of thought that started with Homer, worked its way through Rabelais and reached a poignant climax in the pensees of Matthew Arnold. Graduate students wrote dissertations on what long-dead men had thought of Chaucer's verse or Shakespeare's dramas; foreign languages meant French or German...
...exactly Western Civ, but the scope of Historical Studies A-72, "The Development of the Modern State," is no less broad...
...Civ," requesting their rowdy neighbors to act more civilly...
Michael Jackson Meets Western Civ...