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Nightclubbing was made easy by 4,000 waitresses, hostesses and taxi dancers (previously outlawed), who had just finished a cram course in English and etiquette (sample instruction: don't order drinks without the customer...
...serious failing in our guerrilla warfare efforts-language. A U.S. Ranger in full combat gear seems far less like an intruder in a remote village if he can speak Vietnamese with its inhabitants. Yet even Special Forces troops in Viet Nam rarely receive more than a four-week cram course in local language and culture before beginning their assignments...
Little Lost Soul. All this clearly leads to more specialization, upsetting those who cherish the values of general education-and four years of it in a liberal arts atmosphere. They see colleges becoming mere cram schools for graduate study, and at some prestige campuses, 90% of all B.A.s do go on studying (national rate: 33%). The generalists are also unhappy about speedup advanced-standing schemes in which students skip entire years. (They approve the extra-credit Advanced Placement Program.) At Harvard, Classicist John Finley argues that even ultrabrights need time to grow up. "A student can fly from the West...
...Cram her larynx, lung, and liver...
...graduate, General Ayub overthrew a discredited parliamentary government in a bloodless coup in October 1958, has since used martial law to rescue the overwhelmingly illiterate (88%) country from political and financial chaos and corruption. Three years ago, he retired to his teak-paneled study in Karachi, gave himself a cram course in Thomas Jefferson, and emerged with a plan for basic democracies: 80,000 village elders elected to panchayats (councils) that were to levy local taxes, maintain roads, run police forces. While the panchayats nurtured democracy at the grass roots, Ayub Khan continued to practice autocracy at the top. Last...