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...trade for so long ?because the ideas have always involved creation of an ever larger bureaucracy. Ironically, it is Ronald Reagan, with his nostalgic vision of a day when the individual was great and the Government small, who now appears as the innovator, proposing risky but exciting new courses???to cut taxes by 30% over the next three years, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Carter: Running Tough | 8/25/1980 | See Source »

...slam! crash! chop!?working out a new king's side attack. He always requests a room without a view lest he be distracted from the game. If he ventures out, he always takes his trusty leather pocket set with him. On elevators, in taxis, between dinner courses???he is always at it, busily fiddling away like some old crone at her knitting. "Why should I bother with anything else?" he asks. "Chess is my profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Battle of the Brains | 7/31/1972 | See Source »

Besides the 50 new preceptors?supervisors of small study conferences held in conjunction with lecture courses???Princeton took on 37 new faculty members in 1905-06, made preceptors of 14 who were already there. Chosen from the nation's ablest, these 101 teachers, most of them young, were to become proud of themselves as a group. Seventy of them stayed in pedagogy. Most of them reached prominence?such prominence that last week the Princeton Alumni Weekly asked proudly, ''Where Are the Preceptor Guys?" and told about them as follows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Preceptor Guys | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

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