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...took over the Department of Education's top job in early 1985--after three apparently successful years as head of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)--the signs were hopeful. He was, after all, a Democrat. Moreover, New Republic President and Harvard Lecturer on Social Studies Martin H. Peretz raved about his buddy "Bill" Bennett...
...Peretz's pal showed a darker side when he took his Cabinet position. He immediately announced support for a multibillion-dollar cut in student aid, a stance he has strengthened in the past 20 months. Supporters of educational equality jumped on Bennett because they feared a two-tiered system of higher education: Ivy College for the rich, State U. for the poor. This was the same Bill Bennett, who as the head of NEH, had refused to comply with an affirmative action decree from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...
...original Mosaic was published from 1960 to 1972, and featured articles by writers such as Nobel Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, Dean of Students Archie C. Epps, and New Republic publisher Martin Peretz, said Sarai Brachman '88, who is organizing the magazine's revival...
...report will be very important if it can effect family policy," added Peretz, who said the lectures, may run in The New Republic at a later date...
Lecturer in Social Studies Martin H. Peretz Editor-in-Chief and President of The New Republic, said "The demographic disaster is now extending to whites--the problem is at once more general and more intense for racial minorities...