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...word university comes from the Latin word for whole. The word diversity, on the other hand, stems from the word divert, which means "to turn aside from a course or direction," "to distract" and "to amuse or entertain." Diversity is as false, fragmentary and shallow as liberal education is true, whole and deep. Let us not be diverted from what is good by what is fashionable...
...nation where a quarter of the adult population smokes, 90% of all new smokers are under 18. As politics, it's part of Clinton's year-long strategy to identify with family issues like school uniforms and V chips. So much the better that his announcement was able to divert attention from the release earlier in the week by the Department of Health and Human Services of a report that teenage drug use has risen sharply since...
...player, he said he couldn't wait to cue up some Johnny Mathis albums. Even in Washington, his neighborhood is a sound stage: he lives in the Watergate, spends Sundays going to church, appearing on talk shows and taking Elizabeth to brunch. He has no grandchildren to divert him and few hobbies beyond watching C-SPAN or old movies. He vacations in Florida at a condominium complex where he pals around with David Brinkley and Robert Strauss and Dwayne Andreas--men taking the same break from the same loop...
...attention faded. We may finally be entering a period when flogging values issues creates less and less of a stir. Yes, people are disgusted with vulgar entertainment and its impact on society, and yearn for a simpler time. But to look to government to allay those concerns is to divert it from the things it can do. While the religious right was busy with prayer in classrooms, enforced motherhood for pregnant teenagers and a boycott of Disney, Americans saw their jobs being downsized and their schools falling apart. In any event, it is hardly appropriate for Dole...
...threatened to blow up Iberia Airlines Flight 6621 if he was not taken to Miami. The DC-10 was flying from Madrid to Havana when Ibrahim stepped forward with a letter opener and his "bomb." Holding two wires connected to the tape recorder, he demanded that the pilot divert the flight and told the passengers and crew: "If I put these two wires together, this bomb will blow up." The plane landed in Miami at about 3 p.m. ET Friday. Police rushed the plane and took Ibrahim into custody. Francisco Garcia, a Spanish government spokesman, reported that Ibrahim ended...