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Bennett also offered an attack on the Core Curriculum as a "symbolic nod, a head feint," in the direction of a true central educational core. When Bok confronted him on the issue, Bennett displayed a remarkable ignorance of the specifics of the core program. While he was able to crack that it is a "core lite," he failed to offer any specific commentary. Yet the Core does have its pitfalls, foremost among them the fact that the undergraduates it serves, like their Secretary of Education, don't understand its foundation. The Core's mission to teach students how to think...
...symbolic nod, a head feint" in the direction of a basic education, Bennett says...
...Iraqis might have moved more rapidly if they were not concerned that the Iranian bridgehead at Fao was a feint to draw off troops from Basra, Iraq's second largest city. Across the nearby border, Iran has amassed 200,000 soldiers. To have the city cut off would be a stunning and perhaps fatal blow to the Baghdad government. As the battle at Fao raged, Iraqi fighters shot down an Iranian plane on a flight from Tehran to Ahvaz. All 46 aboard, including eight members of Iran's parliament, perished...
Galipeau awarded the home side a penalty and Yale's outsanding center Randy Wood (two goals, two assists) took full advantage of the opportunity. His feint put Blair down, and he beat him to the stickside...
...thanked all of his opponents ("Without anybody I fought, I couldn't have made any money") and tried to feint the skeptics. "If I retired and came back, I think I would have one of my biggest fights ever. That would be with my wife." Considering 47 bouts, Holmes seems relatively uninjured. He lisps, but he always did. "Physically," he says, "I'm fine." What about mentally? "Mentally, I'm retired...