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...literally and psychologically a survivor. He had come to power upon his uncle's abdication during the Revolution of 1848, and he proceeded to put down and punish the rebels ruthlessly. He stubbornly refused to sell the region of Venetia for nearly $1 billion and then lost it-and many thousands of lives-as a result of a disastrous war with Prussia. The survivor's instinct could only have deepened as he saw his family cut down by firing squad and assassin: his younger brother Maximilian as Napoleon Ill's cat's paw in Mexico...
...chief promoter, for example, of revenue sharing, one domestic innovation of the Nixon Administration that seems destined to survive. If he is not a politician of remarkable depth-not especially eloquent or incisive-he is one of extraordinary breadth. His impulse is expansionist: where there is a need, fill it-and the sooner the better. Let routine administrators tidy up afterward. Rockefeller has exuberantly strewn New York State with his political largesse. Most of it has been beneficent (schools, hospitals, mass transit, antipollution facilities), but some has been dubious (his massive $1 billion concrete and marble Albany mall, which will...
...excited about this weekend," Sacks said yesterday. "The team that wants the Sprints the most gets it-and we want...
...there is no solid evidence at all that the Pentagon papers were given to Soviet officials. An unverified report of that circulated within the FBI. Recalls one FBI agent familiar with it: "It was so vague that it was almost impossible to check out, other than ask the Soviets about it-and that would have been a waste of time." The report also surfaced in another form. A convicted Boston murderer claimed that the man he had killed had got some of the papers from Ellsberg in a blackmail scheme and had sold them to the Russians. FBI officials have...
...years ago. Open education, however, emphasizes new discoveries about how children learn, uses more teaching materials and gives the teacher a more difficult task-to know just when the child is ready for his next stage of development. The movement is growing so rapidly that few teachers are prepared for it-and even fewer parents. Says Roland Barth, an elementary school principal in Newton, Mass.: "Most parents view open classrooms as a risky, untried experiment with their children's lives-a gamble best not taken." In a new book, Open Education and the American School, he warns that...