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...that unwatched teachers gets away with sloppy teaching and that public interest requires press coverage. No government official will censor a story about poor math instruction in Massachusetts high schools. But nobody expects 15-year olds to concentrate on trapezoids while the cameras roll. And free press does not confer the right to try to make them...

Author: By Richard A. Primus, | Title: Imagine That | 1/6/1992 | See Source »

...contrast, he said, there is now a legitimate fear of disunity since students in this country can be educated in their native languages, and since agencies that work with minorities can advise and confer with them in them in their native tongues...

Author: By Jenna B. Mcneill, | Title: Eminent Faculty Address the Harvard Community | 10/19/1991 | See Source »

...weeks, Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine will preside at his first official meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Following an old Harvard tradition, from his high chair in the second floor meeting room of University Hall, Rudenstine will confer honorary degrees on new senior faculty members...

Author: By Julian E. Barnes, | Title: Looking Beyond the Veritas Diploma | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...billionaire Edward Bass, who is financing the venture, have been described as onetime members of a cultlike commune. Biosphere participants have admitted that the degrees some of them received from the Institute of Ecotechnics in London are something of a sham; the institute was set up by Bass to confer legitimacy on the project...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Wizards of Hokum | 9/30/1991 | See Source »

...more general aid program: substantial cuts in Soviet military spending and a reduction in Moscow's aid to Cuba. Major agreed, and was prepared to pass along that message on a Sunday visit to Moscow, where he was slated to become the first Western head of government to confer with both Gorbachev and Yeltsin since the failed coup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Into The Void | 9/9/1991 | See Source »

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