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...been there a long time. And it is also a very old story when the most wholesome moral intentions (such as the American desire to feed starving Somali children) lead down a road into nightmares of entanglement and unintended consequences. The best, brightest American policy thinking went off a cliff in Vietnam, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Trouble with Good Intentions: In Feeding Somalia and Backing Yeltsin, America Discovers the Limits of Idealism . | 10/18/1993 | See Source »

Harvard goalkeeping put the finishing touches on the Crimson victory. Junior Jeb Miller (Freed: "his best game all season") and junior Cliff Chen shut down the MIT offense with five saves apiece...

Author: By Michael E. Ginsberg, | Title: MIT the Cure For Brown Blues, 18-5 | 10/1/1993 | See Source »

...Cliff Hillegass, Cliffs Notes founder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffs Notes | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

Paragraph 14: In the denouement, Cliff Hillegass gives his "goal of education" speech. This is a foreshadowing of Kim's conclusion to the article...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cliffs Notes | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

...would founder Cliff Hillegass want anyone to restrict themselves to the Notes's digestion of a book. He reminds students in the "Note to the Reader" prefacing each edition, "The goal of education is not the unquestioning acceptance of any single interpretation...

Author: By Sunah N. Kim, | Title: In Cliff We Trust | 9/30/1993 | See Source »

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