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...Howard, Duke and Harvard. But he rarely transcends his material; the writing is earnest, the details repetitive and the analysis predictable. Many of the best quotes and anecdotes in Illiberal Education turn out to be secondhand prose. A pivotal paragraph that argues that affirmative action lowers the self-esteem of black students is buttressed not by firsthand interviews but merely by citations from newspaper articles...
...State College and also in that city's two-year City College, students can minor in gay and lesbian studies, with such offerings as Gay Male Relationships and Sexual Well-Being. The City College department was founded in 1989, says chairman Jack Collins, because "it will raise the self-esteem of lesbian and gay students who will realize that they are complete people, that we do have recognizable and describable cultures...
...uninfluential. But since May 1990, he has spent an estimated $40 million launching the European, an English- language newspaper to compete with the International Herald Tribune. A self-made man who is reportedly Britain's ninth richest, with a net worth of $2 billion, Maxwell has earned wide esteem in London's business community. He is robustly satirized, however, by the leftish Private Eye in the comic strip Captain Bob. Among his fiercest critics are former employees. One claims Maxwell is so manipulative that he scheduled simultaneous lunches with former Secretary of State George Shultz and Paramount studio owner Martin...
Because professors are held in higher esteem than graduate students, students would respond more favorably to attention from a professor. Danforth Center studies have concluded that the quality of learning is proportionate to the amount of attention students receive...
...years old. "You have state governments promoting lotteries," says Valerie Lorenz, director of the National Center for Pathological Gambling, based in Baltimore. "The message they're conveying is that gambling is not a vice but a normal form of entertainment." Researchers also point to unstable families, low self-esteem and a societal obsession with money. "At the casinos you feel very important," says Rich of Bethesda, Md., a young recovering addict. "When you're spending money at the tables, they give you free drinks and call you Mister...