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...young idealist from Yale threw up his hands at a system in which teachers who pretended to teach and students who pretended to learn did very little of either. From that frustration was born his thesis: if discipline, willpower and the force of reason couldn't hook students, maybe freedom and responsibility would...
...been less than satisfying. On Tuesday the Administration's Budget Director, Richard Darman, told a congressional hearing that everyone but the White House should be blamed for the nation's sagging economy. After learning of Darman's remarks, Clinton's chief strategist, James Carville, fairly screamed, "That's the hook we need!" So the very next day in the Louisiana Superdome, Clinton attacked Bush for failing the ultimate values test -- the willingness to assume responsibility for one's own shortcomings. "That was some piece of work," says a Bush campaign official, "and I'm sure we'll be hearing more...
...nation primary, and he was trying to devise a more personal approach to the campaign. Then it hit him: Why not portray a run for the presidency from the inside looking out? A few days later, P.F. told associate picture editor Rick Boeth that he'd like to hook up with the Clinton campaign, a risky choice because the Arkansas Governor's candidacy was in deep trouble at the time and his aides were naturally suspicious of becoming involved with the press. "P.F. used all his considerable finesse and diplomatic skills to convince everyone in the campaign that he could...
Black Looks insists that these representations are harmful because the warp people's conceptions of reality. hook's anger with these images is most clearly evident in her perceptive essay on the Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas Senate hearings. She dissents vehemently with those who see the hearings as heralding the "arrival" of Black Americans, the definitive demonstration that this government can work for them on a color-blind basis...
Nathans told the Crimson that"...the people who hook into the system early get the most out of a place like this," she is right, of course. But not only should students hook into the advising system, the system should hook into them...