Word: diversionism
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The real tragedy of this obsessive preoccupation with Eurocentrism is that it is a trap and a diversion. Of all the reasons for the difficulties encountered by the minority kids in and out of school, curricular Eurocentrism ranks, if at all, at the bottom. That New York State, in the...
Stanford can afford such educational indulgences. Its graduates will get jobs even if their education is mildly distorted by this inclusionary passion. Not so inner-city third-graders, whose margin of error in life is tragically smaller. And for whom any dilution or diversion of education to satisfy the demands...
With the push of a button at the new Ataturk Dam last week, Turkey's President Turgut Ozal cut the flow of the Euphrates River to Syria and Iraq, his country's arid downstream neighbors, by 75%. The month-long diversion will enable Turkish engineers to fill a reservoir that...
AND this is a problem. To The Crimson, the real world is not terribly important. Most Crimson reporters are content to stay within the fantasy-land of Harvard Square. Why bother to get the facts straight? It's all a game, and writing articles is an educational diversion for amateur...
.Reform-minded East German Communists demandedan investigation into alleged diversion of hardcurrency revenues from about 100 party-ownedbusinesses, and a high-ranking Communist said theparty has lost 200,000 members since September.