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"Teachers are thrown into the classroom without any preparation for teaching"--this is one of the complaints voiced by well-meaning college teachers all over the country--but I have to say that we don't come in totally unprepared. By the time we step into our first classroom, we...

Author: By Margaret M. Gullette, | Title: Laughing and Learning | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

2) This situation became anomalous when the growth of Soviet strategic forces deprived general nuclear war of much of its credibility. Yet NATO deployment has been essentially unaffected by the change. NATO has improved its conventional defenses but has not closed the gap in such forces. As the current NATO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Plan to Reshape NATO | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

To take but one example, in his freshman year my son took a moral reasoning class from one of the distinguished senior Harvard faculty members, but the first hand instruction came from a sections leader who repeatedly came to meet his students with. "Well, I don't know what the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Undergraduate Instruction? | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

After four years in Afghanistan, the Soviet Union's "limited contingent" of 105,000 men still seems far from winning a decisive victory over anti-Communist rebels. Moscow's forces had not previously engaged in combat outside the Soviet bloc since 1945, and from the start they appeared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Soviets: A One-Dimensional World Power | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

On one side were the Druze and the Shi'ite Muslim forces, backed and armed by the Syrians. On the other were the Lebanese Army and, unfortunately, the Malines, whose role was now being described by the Reagan Administration as upholding the government of President Amin Gemayel. Increasingly, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: The Long Road to Disaster | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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