Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The first in a series of historic visitors to Harvard this week, United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Kofi Annan will address students this Thursday at 4:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre.
Annan's visit comes one day before a historic visit from Mandela.
Perhaps there is no other way here--to build barriers would be to rip up every Israeli neighborhood with fences, to surround all historic areas with walls. Lively modern Israel, its stores, pastimes and errands, just can't wait. But more likely it is a conscious choice: politicians, rabbis, sheiks...
It lingers in our mind despite the fact that there are other things deserving of our attention. The news gods, from their perch high atop the CNN building in Atlanta, have been hurling down one "important" story after another--all in the name of calling our bluff about our desire...
What makes this trend even more troubling is its departure from the historic mission of U.S. public schools. Americans have always regarded education as a critical cog in the machinery of democracy. But they have also prided themselves on constructing "common" institutions that, unlike European schools, geared lessons to the...