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...Internet, TV, radio or happenings in the schoolyard. Parents, teachers and others must prepare children for their future while controlling their present. Adults, however, have earned the right to make decisions about their own lives without interference. I'm logging on to the net today. BARRY STEELE Seneca, South Carolina...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 24, 1995 | 7/24/1995 | See Source »

...politically correct to a fare-thee-well." For example, Harriet Tubman, the African American who helped organize the pre-Civil War underground railroad, is cited six times in the guide, whereas Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is mentioned only once in passing. Students are expected to know about the 1848 Seneca Falls, New York, convention on women's rights (mentioned nine times) but not about the uncited Wright brothers or Thomas Alva Edison, whose inventions transformed the lives of millions. McCarthyism dominates the National Standards precis of the cold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: History, the Sequel | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

...Coast Guard support center, 427 Commercial St., North End. Guided tour of coast guard vessels Seneca, Escanaba or Spencer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fireworks, Festivities Highlight Weekend | 7/2/1993 | See Source »

...despise. Its bathos (LACK OF CHARISMA CAN BE FATAL) might have issued from the warm heart of some Midwestern creative- writing course. Her phrasing (IDEALS ARE REPLACED BY CONVENTIONAL GOALS AT A CERTAIN AGE) is like a Hallmark card rewritten in academe. Holzer may sometimes remind you of Seneca (EXPIRING FOR LOVE IS BEAUTIFUL BUT STUPID) and sometimes of Bakunin (PRIVATE PROPERTY CREATED CRIME). But down deep she is a homebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: A Sampler of Witless Truisms | 7/30/1990 | See Source »

...landlords have taken the reaction with calm and a certain pleasure. Says Seneca Nation President Dennis Lay: "When they negotiated the original leases, they thought we weren't going to be here at the end. I guess we fooled them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indians: Revenge of the Senecas | 7/2/1990 | See Source »

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