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...during my more naive years in high school that education in America was a complete sham, but it was only after my first year in a college 3,000 miles away from home that I fully realized this fact. School, instead of sparking a love for learning for the sake of adding to my personal repertoire of knowledge, has only managed to dull my intellectual senses and developed within me a repulsion for anything academic. The endless rounds of frantically scribbling down notes in lecture, memorizing all the possible facts, dates and names of the required text, then regurgitating them...

Author: By Judy P. Tsai, | Title: The Road to Nowhere | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...G.O.P. Senators. But the President's team reserves the right to challenge the truth of that testimony as well as Starr's conclusions. That way, if the Lott plan collapses and a full-scale trial seems inevitable, the President's team won't have sacrificed its defense for the sake of a failed compromise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lott's Trial Balloon | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

Ever since publication of Huxley's dystopian novel, this has been the standard eugenics nightmare: government social engineers subverting individual reproductive choice for the sake of an eerie social efficiency. But as the age of genetic engineering dawns, the more plausible nightmare is roughly the opposite: that a laissez-faire eugenics will emerge from the free choices of millions of parents. Indeed, the only way to avoid Huxleyesque social stratification may be for the government to get into the eugenics business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Who Gets the Good Genes? | 1/11/1999 | See Source »

...reputation in the eyes of some nations. It wasn't just Republicans who suggested that Clinton had ordered the assault in a Wag the Dog effort to avert impeachment. That theory--though erroneous--echoed in Britain's Parliament, in French editorials and throughout the Arab world. FOR MONICA'S SAKE, IRAQI CHILDREN ARE DYING read a sign waved during a demonstration at a Cairo mosque. From Russia and China came deep grumblings that the U.S. had overstepped itself. Said Boris Yeltsin: "The U.S. and Great Britain have crudely violated the U.N. charter and generally accepted principles of international...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Good Did It Do? | 12/28/1998 | See Source »

...then, does the Pudding year after year remain all-male? Three arguments have been consistently put forward: for the sake of tradition, because its success depends upon this and because integration would cause alumni to withdraw financial support...

Author: By Matthew E. Johnson, | Title: Time to Put Women in Drag, Too | 12/10/1998 | See Source »

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