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...Midge Decter was quoted as saying, "How can a person be qualified to teach without opinions?" But should those opinions be taught as established facts? I tell my students that my personal opinions are irrelevant and will, I hope, remain unknown to them. Although I am more educated than they, I am not necessarily more intelligent. Thus I ought to teach the subject matter and let them form their own opinions. Henry N. Bousquet Clinton, Conn. Unmanly Tears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 13, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...sure Irving Kristol, Harvey Mansfield, Midge Decter, Minister Neuhaus and company deplore the murder in Laramie; nor should I wish to curtail their First Amendment or academic freedom...

Author: By James R. Russell, | Title: No Resurrection This Time | 10/26/1998 | See Source »

...Berlin for interviews with German television and to Auschwitz for a weekend as the guest of survivors. His story was even optioned by a would-be Hollywood dealmaker but, far from profiting, Meili discovered he had signed away his movie rights "without getting a cent" up front. As Andrew Decter, a New Jersey insurance broker who has taken the Meilis under his wing, explains, "He got starstruck, and we had to bring him back down to earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Of Mercy, Fame--And Hate Mail | 5/25/1998 | See Source »

...fact have come up with a formula to keep these countries from fighting over water, said Sheila R. Decter, director of the New England region...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: AJC Lauds Fisher's Water Solution | 11/30/1995 | See Source »

...Decter said that Fisher's economic model emphasizes that "water should be thought of not as a scarce resource but as a resource that costs x amount of dollars...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: AJC Lauds Fisher's Water Solution | 11/30/1995 | See Source »

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