Word: minimall
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The Republican meaning of family values tends to point toward a cultural ideal (two-parent heterosexual households, hard work, no pornography, a minimal tolerance of the aberrant). Says David Blankenhorn, president of the Institute for American Values: "Republicans really do want to argue about the culture. They want to argue...
But no one expects an official solution to be reached at the London conference. Even if all the main factions show up, the conference will include representatives of so many nations and groupings, from the European Community to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, as to constitute what a Dutch...
Finally last week the cruelty captured in powerful pictures of dead children and imprisoned adults succeeded in rousing moral outrage. Like it or not, the world looks to the U.S. to lead an international response. In Washington the curious alchemy of press coverage, public opinion and a presidential campaign abruptly...
-- Doctors reported more than two dozen cases of AIDS-like symptoms in patients who test negative for HIV. The cause is unknown: it could be a new version of HIV (two are already known) or an evolved form of an existing one. It could be a completely different sort of...
The great weaknesses of Harvard's undergraduate education are that classes are large and impersonal and that contact with faculty is all often minimal. First-year seminars are only a token effort to change this, and many students who apply for these seminars are rejected.