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...that weren't enough, some of the Core areas offer courses so narrow in scope as to be ridiculous. For instance, the courses that count for Historical Study B cover the French Revolution, World War I and the Warren Court, 1953-1969. Period. While all of these periods and events are crucial to any person's understanding of specific historical occurrences, simply learning about one of them does not make an educated person. Which leads us to our old conclusion that the Core should allow survey courses like History 10, which teach not only methods but actual facts and dates...
When Emily Dickinson corresponded with her lover, a married man, she made every letter count. Today, the art of letter writing has been reduced to the dregs of sub-standard English found in e-mail. Even grade A Harvard scribes tend to regress on the Internet, thanks to the College's most tried and true teaching method: Pavlovian conditioning...
...among its victims. Today, in every elementary school of 200 pupils or so, three or four youngsters are likely to suffer from it. Howard Hughes' symptoms included an insistence on having a germ-free environment and all his windows permanently sealed. The schoolchildren are more inclined to count cracks in the blacktop (for them, "Step on a crack, break your mother's back" is frighteningly literal) or meticulously arrange their crayons in neat rows, again and again, to avert some imagined catastrophe...
...power. In fact, its birth certificate dates back to Nixon's election in 1968, when the South tilted Republican and rescripted presidential politics. By the late 1980s, this coalition, wedded to old ideas, attack strategies and issues, was wearing out. If Michael Dukakis, a caricature of ineffective, low-blood-count Northeastern liberalism, had not allowed himself to be photographed in that tank hatch looking like Mickey Mouse, George Bush might well have lost...
GORDON SMITH Republican--Oregon His late-count win over fellow millionaire Tom Bruggere, whom he nonetheless outspent better than 2 to 1, keeps five-term Senator Mark Hatfield's seat in G.O.P. hands...