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...role in society has changed radically since the '20s, of course. Now, as Trilling points out, the educational system is perceived as a mechanism for "making restitution to the minorities for the deprivations and injustices they suffered in the evolution of the American middle class," rather than the stronghold of that upper class it served as in the '20s. As Aldrich pointed out in Harper's last Harvard overview, Harvard and Radcliffe now serve as steps to middle class status, rather than as the stomping grounds for those who already hold it. Nevertheless, Trilling argues convincingly that the dominant values...
...Last Stronghold. The series must be seen against the state's background. Arizona remains part of the last American frontier that has not quite closed. The gun is still king, and justice is often meted out privately. As law-abiding citizens have flocked to the good life of the fabled Sunbelt, so too have mobsters. Mingling with the native criminals, they have combined the worst of both worlds: Joey Gallo in a Stetson. The rackets are flourishing, most visibly land fraud. Says Arizona's assertive attorney general, Bruce Babbitt: "We've been entranced by our own rhetoric...
...brief and carefully orchestrated press conference, Claustre reported that she had actually been released Dec. 13 but had asked to remain with the rebels until her husband Pierre, who was being held in a separate camp, was also freed. The couple finally left the rebels' stronghold under Libyan escort on Jan. 24. Four days later they arrived in Tripoli, where Gaddafi insisted on giving them an archaeological sightseeing tour before handing them over to the French...
...take a look at who it comes from, and where he or she said it. Like the idea to enlist women deacons for the Roman Catholic Church, which came from the Pope, not Daniel Berrigan. Or statehood for Puerto Rico, which could surpass Washington D.C. as a Democratic Party stronghold, which came, most recently, from then-President Ford...
...move would sow such political confusion in the ranks of the majority that his economic-recovery program would be "compromised." Added Centrist Leader Jean Lecanuet: "Far from strengthening the majority, Mr. Chirac's initiative risks giving the left a chance." Though Paris has long been a conservative stronghold, recent polls do indeed show gains by the left, and the spectacle of a divided majority just might give it the election. Whatever the outcome, Chirac's candidacy ruptured the few links that remained between Giscard and the Gaullist camp. Said an inside observer of French politics...