Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nomination, was assassinated in Los Angeles. Young as they were, both Kathleen, then 16, and Joe, 15, were old enough in 1968 to understand what had happened and to retain the impression that "Daddy," as they still call their father, had made upon them. "You have a special and particular responsibility now, which I know you will fulfill," Robert Kennedy wrote to Joe on the day his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, was buried in 1963. "Be kind to others who are less fortunate than we -- and love our country." Kathleen received a similar note. When Joseph P. Kennedy...
...past few years, Bok has earned his reputation by issuing reports sharply critical of American higher education in general, and its medical and law schools in particular. As Harvard celebrates "350 years of higher education in America and Harvard's role in it," Harvard University Press is publishing Bok's third book, "Higher Learning," a 206-page survey and critique of the state of American higher education, circa...
...hear it from your mother. You hear it from your mate. But why criticize anything? And, in particular, why criticize...
...longer term, legalistic critiques of graduate schools have led to tangible changes. "Many of my most important long-term projects deal with problems specific to particular schools," Bok says. But Bok says rather than take over from faculties which have problems, he encourages "deans to articulate the problem and to take the long view...
...panelists expressed mixed feelings about their years at Harvard and suggested ways in which the University, and the Harvard Foundation for Race Relations in particular, could improve the state of minority life...