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But in reality the river's final moments, and indeed much of its progressively arthritic journey toward the sea, are as fittingly equivocal as ) the relationship between the two countries and cultures it bisects. That became ever more apparent during the four weeks I spent following the river westward and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey Along the U.S.-Mexico Border | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

It is a far from glorious end for a river that for 140 years has been the most tangible physical divide between the U.S. and Mexico as well as the symbolic frontier between the two dominant cultures of the New World. As I skipped stones across the river's mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Journey Along the U.S.-Mexico Border | 10/24/1988 | See Source »

Bennett has never been a favorite with higher education leaders for his often fruitless attempts to cut federal funding of student aid. The former education secretary further aroused their ire earlier this year when he attacked Stanford University for yielding to the demands of vocal student groups that it change...

Author: By Andrew J. Bates, | Title: Bennett, Bloom Seek Curricular Reform | 10/22/1988 | See Source »

[A]n educated American, in the last third of this century, cannot be provincial in the sense of being ignorant of other cultures and other times. It is no longer possible to conduct our lives without reference to the wider world in which we live.

Author: By Lawrence B. Finer, | Title: Jazzing Up the Core | 10/18/1988 | See Source »

Xueliang, who joined the Red Guard in 1966, is a teaching fellow for two Core courses--Foreign Cultures 26, "Industrial East Asia," this fall and Foreign Cultures 48, "The Cultural Revolution," this spring.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ex-Red Guard Teaches Sections | 9/28/1988 | See Source »

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