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...What I call the Klitgaard strategy is the quickest way to make a name for oneself by coming out against those who can't hit back," Counter said...

Author: By Jennifer L. Wittner, | Title: Educators Discuss Affirmative Action At K-School Forum | 12/10/1980 | See Source »

...development. Even when live-at-home young adults are contributing money and labor to the household, the fact is that parents provide a psychological safety net whose presence can only serve to inhibit and dilute risk taking and mistake making, both essential components of learning about life and oneself. Living at home after graduating from college or getting a job is an infantilizing process that ultimately sets back both parent and child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 10, 1980 | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...delusions of grandeur his young politicos may shelter, Untermeyer's curriculum focuses on the more mundane routes to establishing a political career--moving into a community, securing a job that allows both the flexibility to run for office and the pay to support such an effort, and establishing oneself with local party structures and civic leaders...

Author: By Geoffrey T. Gibbs, | Title: Dreaming of Capitol Hill | 11/3/1980 | See Source »

...group they are almost uniformly liberal and antiwar, and they admire the United Nations, which is certainly unusual. They also have very soft voices, which seem to arise inside of you rather than from them. When one talks with a psychiatrist, therefore, one has the impression of talking with oneself, which can be an alarming symptom for which one might seek help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The People's Analyst | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

...expect anything dramatic," he says. While he admits as chairman he must look at the number of concentrators, Huggins says he doesn't want to focus on quantity. "It's a qualitative matter--I see it as a way of developing a competence in students, a means of training oneself to do something they could not do otherwise...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: Huggins Takes the Hot Seat | 9/15/1980 | See Source »

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