Word: core
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Bennett has since attacked the likes of Harvard for jacking costs above $12,000 with the help of federal student-loan support and for "ripping off" undergraduates with suffused curriculums that Bennett derides as "core lite." He has detonated heavy controversy by advocating federal vouchers to finance parental choice among public schools -- typically, say opponents, white schools for white kids living in mixed neighborhoods. He has called for AIDS testing of all marriage-license applicants, hospital patients and convicts and has unloaded on Republicans and Democrats alike who opposed the President's Iranian and contra policies. All that after Brother...
THIS intertwining of the personal and the political--crises of faith in the Church's canon and the cultural canon--are the core of Sorceress. The movie is effective as a political statement because its characters are eminently real people, grappling with concrete, emotional problems and not just abstract representations of the political hierarchy...
...Blades has brought off a singular aesthetic victory. But who will hear it? Who will play it? Previously, albums by the Panama-born Blades were recorded in Spanish and aimed at a Spanish-speaking audience. By making Nothing But the Truth in English, he has risked losing his core audience while still seeming perhaps too ethnic to a wider, whiter one. The record has not hatched a hit, and up till now has sold a modest 100,000 copies. It has also created a tactical problem: "How do we work it out so I can address both Anglo and Latin...
Meese would be perfect as Bush's running mate. Geographically, Meese is from California while Bush is from everywhere else. Ideologically, Meese will be attractive to the hard-core right wing maniacs while Bush can appeal to moderates. Physically, Bush is skinny while Meese is a little chubby. Together they make a perfectly balanced ticket...
...came to China unprepared to understand the phenomenon of a 6000-year history--I had never studied the language, the culture, the history. Before the trip, "Cultural Revolution" was synonymous in my mind with a popular Core course--one that I hadn't taken...