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...kind of information disseminated in Suicide, however, necessitates a long and critical look. Freedom-of-the-press laws themselves probably should be sacrosanct, but the press's "no harm done" mindset that encourages it to abuse its free reign warrants scrutiny. Consider not just the "information" found in Suicide, but the medical and psychological context surrounding...
While it remains difficult to evaluate the mindset of an unapplauded lecturer, it's fairly easy to gauge how applause receivers feel. "No one who is honest about it," Clive says, "dislikes the applause." And freshmen seem prepared to continue this unique Harvard tradition. "It's like tipping," Gruber says. "If the waiter serves real slowly, you're still going to tip 15 percent...
ONLY TWO RESPONSES have shaken free of the admissions mindset: a painstaking program of "expected learning outcomes" developed by schools and colleges through the College Board, and a self-styled "educational manifesto" by the Paideta Group, master-minded by philosopher and Encyclopedia Britannica scholar Mortimer Adler. Neither, though, is likely to get at the roots of the decline of high-school preparation--college or otherwise...
...Administration's announcement still represents only the watering down of a policy that remains unacceptable. A partial boycott is as inappropriate as a full one on a question where no retaliatory measures are called for, and the obstinacy with which Reagan has pursued this issue betrays a dangerous mindset which remains unaltered. The President persists in pitting West against East and electing himself captain of a mythical team of "good guys," substituting machismo for persuasive integrity...
...Washington did organize Garcia's overthrow, then it would appear we have regressed back to the covert action days of the 1950s and 1960s. Such a policy gave Guatemala 28 years of military dictatorship and brought about the Bey of Plgs fiasco. And it characterizes the same mindset that led Presidents Johnson and Nixon to he to the American people about U.S. action abroad. We had all hoped that the crisis of integrity our government underwent was scrapped along with the E. Howard Hunts and G. Gordon Liddys. But if U.S. involvement in the Guatemalan coup constitutes the beginning...