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...choose one politician to sit at the Pearly Gates and pass judgment on my soul, Jimmy Carter would be the one," wrote former Presidental Speechwriter James Fallows. Having paid that compliment to the humanity and understanding of his onetime employer, he proceeded to render so harsh a judgment on Carter and his presidency that Fallows' wrathful ex-colleagues at the White House must wish that he had indeed reached the Pearly Gates...
Taking as his text Jesus' command "Render therefore unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God, the things that are God's" (Matthew 22: 21), Shils sardonically assigned the role of Caesar to the Federal Government, while arguing that universities have a quasi-religious mission in so far as they pursue truths about nature and man. It would be proper, said Shils, for the two spheres to respect the differences between them. Instead, since World War II, according to Shils, the Government has ignored the universities' traditional function of searching for truth. It has pushed them into...
...Carmegie Commission on General Education in 1977 declared general education "a disaster area." The Faculty, facing this formidable precedent, would do well to use all the intelligent advice it can muster. Dean Rosovsky can hardly afford to shrug off the opinions of students, who will ultimately render the last judgment on the Core...
...happen, of course. The reactor core would soon hit ground water, and send jets of radioactive steam shooting into the air, contaminating all the area around the plant. In fact, government studies have estimated that a serious "meltdown" or "China Syndrome" accident could easily kill 45,000 people and render an area the size of Pennsylvania forever uninhabitable. The same agency estimated that the chance of such a serious accident is about one in a million, or equal to the chances of meteor hitting a major U.S. city head on. But the point of "The China Syndrome" is that factors...
Caroline Franklin's lyrics are mostly marvelous, escaping limitations that render Pudding scripts cliched. While Franklin's lyrics would not have stood a chance on their own, except as clever greeting cards, they are without question the best aspect of Overtures...