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...papers and write the editorials. Selecting an editor is an elaborate affair: The corporate leaders are careful to pick just their kind of guy and are willing spend many hours over lunch, at cocktail parties and conducting intense face-to-face interviews deciding who qualifies under this dubious rubric. The men who run large newspaper chains tend to share the corporate mentality that one develops when one is wealthy, powerful and free from the restraints of the government to make as much money as one can. They are typically profoundly anti-government and anti-socialist. And they have no penchant...
Joseph Hannon, Chicago school superintendent: "We feel magnet schools are effective. Just because the courts find a problem with one desegregation program, the rubric doesn't have to be placed on every other plan. Uniquely each city has to develop its plan based on its needs...
...this country. Prime Minister Levesque tried to argue, however, that while Americans should view Quebec's independence as merely a formal change, Quebeckers could look forward to substantive changes and improvements in their lifestyles. The proponents of independence argue that most of these improvements will fall under the rubric of culture, although beneficial economic changes may occur also...
...most serious restriction, however, lies in the report's recommendation to regulate closely the types of courses that would fall under the rubric of "General Education...
...hear a lot of people have been sick lately, so I've become very interested in the problem of winter disease. In an effort to better understand all these different sicknesses going around under the general rubric of "flu," I have decided to try to catch as many different illnesses as possible. Still, I don't think that I've been able to cover the whole spectrum of these maladies--I have yet to experience gut-wrenching stomach aches or muscle stiffness...