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...Britannica have sought to distill the sum of human knowledge. Now British Playwright Ronald Duncan, 63, and Miranda Weston-Smith, 21, have tried a different approach. They have edited and just published The Encyclopaedia of Ignorance (Pergamon Press; $30), a 450-page volume that makes a brave attempt to encompass much of what man does not know. Say the editors: "Compared to the pond of knowledge, our ignorance remains atlantic...
...part of the Pretoria government's long-range survival plan for South African whites. The policy of "separate development" calls for dividing the country's 18.6 million blacks and 4.3 million whites into ten states, nine for blacks and one for whites. The whites' state will encompass 87% of South Africa's territory, including all 17 major cities...
Soon disabused of Mother Russia, he clung to a half-baked Marxism that served his sociopathy. Later he would contrive to stretch his ideology to encompass Kennedy and right-wing General Edwin Walker as targets for assassination...
Most observers believe the Supreme Court's ruling on Bakke, expected next year, will not be broad enough to encompass all reverse-discrimination cases. In last week's oral arguments, at least four Justices indicated that the case could be decided on narrow grounds, i.e., limited to Bakke alone. The case could be sent back to California courts because the record is inadequate (as a much argued over Justice Department brief urged), or the court might rule that a limited state or federal law governed the case. As Justice William Brennan reminded Attorney Colvin, "Ordinarily...
Social analysis courses would include "Principles of Economics," "Equality and Inequality," "Heredity and the Environment," while Moral Philosophy would encompass offerings like "Civil Rights and Constitutional Law," and "Theory and Practice of Democratic Government...