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...Courses that would be aimed at people who were not specialists, I think, is a common thread with the Core," he says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: General Education Created to Teach Basic Knowledge | 6/4/1996 | See Source »

...said, 'Franklin, I'm really dreading the board meeting that's coming,'" because his ill health had made "some changes" necessary. He produced a sheaf of letters he had received from executive-committee members, letters he said he had thus far shared only with Ruth. They had a common thread, he explained,"...and that's that you're to be the one to take it over. And, Franklin, I agree with them, and if I present this to the board I want to know what you're going to say." Franklin did not hesitate. "I said, 'Daddy, if this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...thread" on the usenet group, harvard.general, students debated the origin of the message and expressed their anger over the posting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mass E-Mail Causes Outrage | 3/7/1996 | See Source »

Where to begin? Blacks, Jews, women, homosexuals--which continuously discriminated-against group is at the top of his hate list? The common and unfortunate thread uniting all these groups is that, despite decades of struggling for equality, they continue to evoke resentment and fear from portions of the population. It is through this window of opportunity that the winds of Buchananism blow through our society. (The statements that follow were detailed in a 1993 report of the Anti-Defamation League...

Author: By Erica S. Schacter, PERSPECTIVES | Title: A Demagogue Is Born | 2/27/1996 | See Source »

...Treasury Department has given the $100 bill a complete overhaul, and will begin releasing the new currency in a matter of weeks. Treasury spent nearly 10 years on the redesign and has added any number of state-of-the-art features: microprinting, color-shifting ink, a polymer security thread. The most striking alteration, however, is the enlargement of Benjamin Franklin's portrait: he now dominates the bill like a movie star in a newspaper advertisement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IT'S A BRAND-NEW CENTURY | 2/12/1996 | See Source »

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