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Despite the adoption of certain programs that might be considered conservative, the U.S. public is unlikely to swerve from its liberal course no matter how much a solitary Buckley may prod. But the fun is in the prodding, as far as William Buckley is concerned. And if, through fire, flood, earthquake, atomic holocaust or even conservatism, the present-day liberal U.S. should expire, no one stands to lose more than Buckley. For he enjoys the best of both worlds: a society that is especially vulnerable to criticism from the right and equally willing to take...
Their "incredible marriage" dissolves, then begins again as their more credible marriages and responsibilities permit. The antitheses and paradoxes persist and prod the couple until the poet, responding now to his guilt more than his love, seeks new solutions. One answer is simple; their spouses could fall in love with one another: "Why can't. Lise, why shouldn't theyfall in love?" But that never happens...
...tribal lands in northern Uganda, young Apollo Milton Obote often pondered how it would be to govern people rather than sheep or goats. Speaking to his charges as if they were human and he their chief, he soon discovered that keeping them in order required him both to prod them along and win their cooperation. Now the President of Uganda, Obote is governing his country in much the same way. Last week, as Uganda's 8,000,000 people prepared for this week's celebration of the fifth anniversary of their independence from Britain, Obote seized the occasion...
After a few quiet weeks, two second-year students decided to prod the committee into action. They wrote an open letter, invaluable as a well-reasoned document of student concern, outlining the areas in in which reforms were needed. It questioned the rigid numerical grading and ranking system, according to which the student's access to important "Honorary" extra-curricular activities, and possibly his future career plans, were determined. Criticism extended to the Honoraries themselves and suggested that many positions be opened up to free competition and that the School provide more activities and practical internship experiences...
Civil rights has probably done more than any other movement to prod core-city education to change. It has challenged the professional bureaucracy with its demands for desegration of ghetto schools, and the inability of school systems to meet those demands effectively has placed the inadequacies of bureaucracy and central planning squarely before the public eye. In New York City the bureaucracy, supported by small pressure groups, has repeatedly frustrated attempts by the Board of Education to integrate ghetto schools. Throughout the country, school superintendents, who traditionally rise through the hierarchy, have shown themselves unable to master the logistics...