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Illingworth's argument that the Institute should not have a table because it has no responsibility for undergraduate education ignores the fact that no other organization at the fair has that responsibility either. Moreover, Lewis's assertion that the Radcliffe Institute does not organize extracurricular activities seems dubious. Among the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Letters | 9/19/2000 | See Source »

These displays are rarely spontaneous. In Temple, Texas, for example, the No Pray, No Play group has a toll-free number (Press one for T shirts and merchandise; press two for media kits) to gin up support for the high school in the Texas town of Santa Fe that provoked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Too Much Like A Prayer? | 9/18/2000 | See Source »

There is no reason to sneer at commitment to the community. But to think that government action can be effectively replaced with private initiative is dangerously shortsighted. (Remember the successes of that great champion of voluntary action, Herbert Hoover.) For all its faults, politics is also a means by which...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, | Title: A Call to Serve | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

Through Lian's bright eyes, China during the Cultural Revolution often seems more deranged than consciously brutal. To mention food, drink or sex is to invite charges of bourgeois decadence. Students are required to master the denunciation article, a form Lian describes as "a slanging match between a couple of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Culture Clash | 9/11/2000 | See Source »

Stein is to be commended for wearing a chicken costume as a first step to getting to know chickens better. Now I invite him to visit our chicken sanctuary on the Eastern Shore of Virginia in order to deepen his vicarious identification with the birds whose dead wings he still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 28, 2000 | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

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