Word: leveller
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Started in 1977 as an offshoot of the Center for Lifelong Learning, the HILR has grown from an original 93 students to nearly 400 this semester. Although the largest, block of HILR students is made up of men and women formerly involved with education at some level, professions as varied as archaeology, dentistry, oceanography, and philosophy are represented in the program...
...AIDS is the most important problem in our lifetime," Fein says. "The opportunity to get involved in the ground level of an organization that will be dealing with all aspects of the disease is just overwhelming...
...greatest irony of all is that the higher education community brought the pressure on itself. For the NEA and the "blob" of interest groups representing higher education which had pushed so hard for a Cabinet-level position in the late 1970s were the ones who made Bennett possible. And instead of getting the acquiescent, cooperative type of leader they expected in the post, education leaders found themselves dealing with a highly independent secretary with an agenda remote from their...
Instead of admitting the inevitable (i.e. "We cannot compete at the level we are now competing at and expect to win"), Columbia decided to lower its admissions standards for football players. This measure was approved by the Ivy Group, a body that represents Ivy League schools...
...people who should be talking about their devotion to family, politicians are probably the last. To enter the presidential arena is to invite 15,000 journalists into your bed and bath. It does terrible things to families. Anyone who chooses public life, particularly at the presidential level, declares to the world that he places ambition above family...