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...that seed money spent? Poorly, says Lynne Cheney, who headed the NEH when the grant was approved. She is the most prominent of conservative critics who charge that National Standards offers what Cheney calls "a warped view of American history" and that its criteria for including or excluding landmark events and persons are "politically correct to a fare-thee-well." For example, Harriet Tubman, the African American who helped organize the pre-Civil War underground railroad, is cited six times in the guide, whereas Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is mentioned only once in passing. Students are expected to know about...
...Town News, a landmark Harvard Square newsstand, now has an out-of-town owner...
...exaggerate, omit facts or otherwise fail to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth. Especially on sensitive subjects like sexual behavior. There is also the risk that the sample will not represent a fair cross section. Both of these problems have plagued earlier sex surveys, including the landmark reports issued by Alfred Kinsey in the 1940s and '50s. The team from the University of Chicago that produced the new study was determined to do better...
Scientists, on the whole, praise the study. "Any new research is welcome if it is well done," says Dr. William Masters, co-author of the landmark 1966 study Human Sexual Response. By all accounts, this one was very well done. But, like every statistical survey, it has its weaknesses. Researchers caution that the sample was too limited to reveal much about small subgroups of the population - gay Hispanics, for example. The omission of people over 59 is regrettable, says Shirley Zussman, past president of the American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists: "The older population is more sexually active...
...have visited a number of these. My first and perhaps most memorable such experience was to attend Harvard-trained Hardy Hansen's "The Classical Origins of Western Culture" class at Brooklyn College in 1991. When Lynne Cheney, then-chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, released her landmark 1989 booklet "50 Hours: A Core Curriculum for College Students," the Brooklyn program was cited as exemplary...