Word: mindedness
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I find it particularly sickening that Moses compares the situation in Israel to that in South Africa. In the first place, if Israel was similar to South Africa, we would not be subjected to bias in the press, because the foreign press would be banned altogether. The Israeli army is...
Carswell's further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point--he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand...
He shut down 18 underused schools, imposed a citywide curriculum and instituted achievement tests for kindergarten through ninth grade. Those who failed were held back, including almost 10,000 kindergartners over five years. Green negotiated millions in corporate gifts to the school system. And he broke segregation patterns with busing...
! If nothing else, the 1988 campaign gives Haig a chance to vindicate himself: he is not crazy, he is in control, and he feels he was right in his losing battle against his small-minded colleagues in the Reagan White House. Critics who accuse him of merely trying to boost...
So all things put in the balance--a sense of guilt for leaving a morass of schoolwork unfinished, on the one hand; a single-minded psychotic unwillingness to remain one more second in Cambridge on the other--I welcomed the opportunity to rise before dawn on Friday, the 8th of...