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Huntington and Betts published another version of their "Dead Dictators" article in the Wall Street Journal (13 August 1986) after Marcos was out. The whole discussion about the Philippines and the false conclusions are omitted, in light of Marcos's replacement by Aquino, which occurred in the meantime. Once more, both articles make it appear as if certain political opinions are rooted in scholarship or science...
Five years ago Adler introduced an iconoclastic program he calls the Paideia (from the Greek word for raising a child) to schools in Atlanta, Chicago and Oakland. Unlike conventional curriculums, with their set-piece texts and lectures, fast-track studies for bright kids and vocational dead ending for slower ones, the Paideia presents the same material to all students, conveyed through Socratic talk between teachers and pupils. It is Adler's conviction that every child can handle the richest offering of broad, humanistic learning. While he concedes that intellectual capacities vary, by his own metaphor, from half-pint to gallon...
...small explosives that launched a "cannon net" over the condor, and A.C. 9 was grounded for what wildlife experts say is his own good. The bird was endangered by his civilized surroundings: first by Indians who sought feathers, later by poison traps and lead from bullets in dead animals. A.C. 9, one of only 27 condors in North America, was placed in another of civilization's trappings, the San Diego Wild Animal Park, where it might mate with 13 female condors there and at the Los Angeles...
Cruse took hostages and held off police for 7 1/2 hours before being captured. His toll: six dead, including two policemen, and 14 injured. The gunman, a retired librarian who is married to an ailing wife, had a reputation as a neighborhood crank. To one of his hostages, he explained his mindless massacre: "If I wasn't drunk, it wouldn't have happened...
...black township outside the Indian Ocean port of Durban, riot police hunting suspected terrorists surrounded a house and ordered the occupants to leave the building. One man came out shooting, officials said, but police gunfire drove him back inside. Another man opened fire from a window and was shot dead. Police flung hand grenades into the house and set it afire. Inside the ruins they found two corpses and a cache of AK-47 assault rifles...