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...program met with criticism originating in Washington, too. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56, D-Mass., with two other legislators, wrote a letter to Ashcroft in December 2003, urging him to suspend further implementation of the Special Registration Program...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Foreign Scholars Hindered | 5/19/2004 | See Source »

...book is a belated follow-up to Orientalism, the classic 1978 work by Palestinian-American intellectual Edward Said, which described how Europeans have long stereotyped non-Westerners ("Orientals") in ways that emphasize their irrationality and childishness. Occidentalism tells the other side of the story: how influential non-Western thinkers, especially in Islamic countries such as Iran, Egypt and Pakistan, have portrayed Americans and Europeans as being money-minded, effeminate, sexually promiscuous and decadent-thus providing the intellectual justification for Islamic terrorism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Monster in the Mirror | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...author Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, a brilliant and poignant testimonial to Farmer's altruism, as well as a chronicle of his dedication to eradicating diseases in poor countries. With Kidder as Farmer's credible biographer, I'd place the good doctor in TIME's Top 10. Edward D. Toland III Indian Wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

...author Tracy Kidder's Mountains Beyond Mountains, a brilliant and poignant testimonial to Farmer's altruism as well as a chronicle of his dedication to eradicating diseases in poor countries. With Kidder as Farmer's credible biographer, I'd place the good doctor in TIME's Top 10. EDWARD D. TOLAND III Indian Wells, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 17, 2004 | 5/17/2004 | See Source »

Starting in the early '70s, Prince Edward gradually integrated over the next three decades, thanks to an ambitious superintendent who improved academics and to liberal faculty at two local colleges who began sending their children to public school. Today Prince Edward's public schools are 59% black, 40% white and 1% other. Without violence, busing or magnet schools, the community that once chose no schools over racially mixed ones has achieved a level of integration far above the national average--typically, a white child attends a school that is 79% white. At the same time, Prince Edward's students...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prince Edward County, Va.: Success Bought at a High Cost | 5/10/2004 | See Source »

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