Word: mindedness
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Royalty and privilege are threatened. So too is a genteel culture represented by Sir William, British envoy to the decadent Neapolitan court. A collector of antiquities and an amateur scientist, he occasions Sontag's heavier musings. Unfortunately, he is too underpowered to be the principal vehicle in a historical tour...
The Oregon plan drew criticism from a broad range of groups, from the Roman Catholic Church to the Children's Defense Fund. Even reform-minded Al Gore expressed concerns about the proposal, while Bill Clinton has not yet committed himself.
His tale of a nation of "zombies" waiting for change makes it hard to gloat over the fall of communism. What he found was a Cuba that still respects Fidel as a well-intentioned grandfather who tried to bring equal rights, education and health to the island but is now...
"He's more creative than Graham," said Professor of Education Donald W. Oliver. The former dean "was party-line public school reform," Oliver said, while Murphy is "one of the most open-minded administrators we're had."
The most prominent country in the early going, however, had been one that did not march but made its presence felt at every turn: independent-minded Catalonia, which is determined to cast these as the Catalan, not the Spanish, Games. A longtime enemy of Castile, delighting in a language that...