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...guidelines form the state), send the results to the State Department of Education, which only collects them and sends them to the USOE for distillation and inclusion in the office's glossy-covered annual report on Title I. One New York education official admitted that local districts may sometimes gloss over the defects in their programs,but said "You have to have some faith in the judgement of officials, and professionals...
This is not to say that we are without hope. We have hope; but we have been and we still are deeply troubled. To gloss over this fact or to speak glibly about it would be dishonest both to ourselves and to those who are still "in charge...
...members of the Mirror group's board of directors who belong to the Labor Party and still support Wilson. Adding to their distress was the fact that King rarely took the trouble to consult them on important matters. Moreover, profits declined somewhat last year, taking some of the gloss off the years of heady expansion under King. Last week, at a secret meeting presided over by Cudlipp, the board voted unanimously to sack the chairman...
...Bitter Aftertaste," the title of TIME'S gloss on student unrest in Germany [April 26], describes what at least one German conservative had in his mouth after reading it. You assert that the students had "found neither violence so romantic nor West German society so weak as they had imagined." What evidence is there that they had imagined violence to be romantic-a few months after one of them had been shot in Berlin? I see diverse ingredients in our students' attitude toward violence. Of romanticism I see no trace. Also: Is society's strength measured...
...moral sense, violence is not power but an act of despair, an admission of failure to find any other way to gain a goal. By definition, every society is committed to nonviolence; the violent are suicidal, for society must repress acts against law and order. Yet realistically, one cannot gloss over the fact that violence often pays off. In the violent subculture of a juvenile gang, the nonviolent are considered cowards, and violence produces not guilt but status...