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...Minute University" tenured the world's fastest talker to zip through lectures on 10 subjects key to any core curriculum. If the American mind is closed, Professor John Moschitta's curriculum will enlighten it in about as much time as it takes an automatic garage door to open and shut...
Officials at the Murray Center supported the fellowship program. "We are interested in supporting research in human development," said Anne Colby, director of the Murray Research Center. The program "is an effective use of our data resources. It will enlighten us about the development of human motivation," she said...
Plante, Wallace, Donaldson & Co. are rightly proud of their dogged surveillance of the most powerful man on earth. But the bright lights of power sooner or later blind almost everyone who bathes in them. Journalists were originally created to enlighten, not to threaten; to inform, not to perform; to know, not to show...
...THIS GOAL is entirely unattainable and to some degree immoral. The purpose of a liberal education in an institution which preaches diversity should be as much to enlighten white upper-middle class and upper-class students as it is to integrate or, as the case may be, uplift members of minority groups. These two goals, though, are incompatible. The former places the minority student in the position of being an intellectual diversion for others. Like the Foreign Cultures requirement in the Core, the minority student is programmed into the educational equation as just another variable to broaden the horizons...
Jack Kemp, 51, the New York Congressman and former pro- football quarterback (for the Buffalo Bills), once thought he would end up as a coach or teacher. Even now that he is campaigning for President he cannot suppress the urge to enlighten, to pounce on a negative outlook and offer an optimistic economic vision in its stead. His fervent embrace of the supply-side faith and its feel-good gospel of growth is more than just a political platform. It is a personal creed that has fueled his career and helped him develop a blend of conservatism and blue-collar...