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...Reagan's failure to apologize for what--at best--was a profound dereliction of duty makes clear his lack of respect for the idea that, at least in this country, the people are supreme. He acknowledges yielding authority to a secret government but thinks he is only at fault because the secret government was a poor...
...termed the allegation "rubbish." According to him, "Initially the right wing wanted to take credit for it--until they saw it." They have since disowned the series "because it's too soft on the Russkies and too hard on the U.S. in suggesting that the occupation was our own fault," said the ABC spokesman...
While President Bok said that any problem is the fault of students who leave professors twiddling their thumbs during office hours, most of us realize that office hours really mean little to the average Harvard student. They are artificial meetings which mostly help only a handful of students: fanatics who have read everything the professor ever wrote and brown-nosers who need just one more faculty recommendation for that Rhodes application...
...That's my fault," Roby said afterward. "It was a terrible play. I'll take sole responsibility for it. Not only was it terrible but it was inappropriate...
...Also at fault is the U.S. curriculum, which "spirals" students through subjects, with a light introduction in the early years and subsequent returns to concepts at increasingly sophisticated levels. But spiraling, as implemented in the U.S., observes Travers, "fails miserably. . .We keep on retreading and revisiting the same ideas." Finally, American schools often channel students and their assignments into separate "tracks," or ability levels, which may reinforce the performance of top students but imbues slower youngsters with the self-fulfilling notion that little is expected of them...