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...period or event to be extremely valuable. To say certain Core courses' narrowness of scope makes them "ridiculous" not only undermines the importance of major periods such as the French Revolution or the Warren Court, but also suggests that breadth and shallowness are inherently better than depth--an altogether dubious assertion. Learning about an important period offered in the Hist B category of the Core (e.g. America and Vietnam or the Civil War) is imperative to an educated person. It is just a shame we can't take all of them...
WOODBURN, Massachusetts: In what could be one of the year's more dubious recruitment tactics, irate parents in Massachusetts are charging that a Baptist church lured hundreds of children with promises of pizza and basketball games only to baptize them instead. It's not yet clear how many children were baptized, and whether some parents had signed permission slips, police said. The Middlesex District Attorney is currently reviewing allegations to determine whether any laws were broken. If nothing else, at least truth in advertising was violated. "They didn't tell us about Mass or anything," said Rosa Vazquez, a Catholic...
...through the bureaucracy looking for programs that help the President appear relevant. Morris' gift is to be a psychological trip wire for Clinton, pushing ideological gambits so far across the spectrum that Clinton can just say no. When the consultant wanted Clinton to roll back racial preferences, impose constitutionally dubious restrictions on civilian militias and launch federal roundups of illegal aliens, Clinton vetoed the ideas each time. In that sense, the lesson of the Morris years may be that it takes an adviser with no core ideology to make Bill Clinton search...
WOODBURN, Massachusetts: In what could be one of the year's more dubious recruitment tactics, irate parents in Massachusetts are charging that a Baptist church lured hundreds of children with promises of pizza and basketball games only to baptize them instead. It's not yet clear how many children were baptized, and whether some parents had signed permission slips, police said. The Middlesex District Attorney is currently reviewing allegations to determine whether any laws were broken. If nothing else, at least truth in advertising was violated. "They didn't tell us about Mass or anything," said Rosa Vazquez, a Catholic...
WOODBURN, Massachusetts: In what could be one of the year's more dubious recruitment tactics, irate parents in Massachusetts are charging that a Baptist church lured hundreds of children with promises of pizza and basketball games only to baptize them instead. It's not yet clear how many children were baptized, and whether some parents had signed permission slips, police said. The Middlesex District Attorney is currently reviewing allegations to determine whether any laws were broken. If nothing else, at least truth in advertising was violated. "They didn't tell us about Mass or anything," said Rosa Vazquez, a Catholic...