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To: JohnM who wrote (63048)	12/24/2002 9:45:18 PM
From: mistermj	Respond to of 281500

>>and then became a Republican policy when the Dems got salvation with LBJs civil rights bills."<< Wow JohnM....you are the first to admit that LBJ's civil rights bill was just a buyout of the Afro-American vote. Shame ,shame,it sure didn't further their cause.

To: JohnM who wrote (63048)	12/26/2002 12:40:45 AM
From: LindyBill	Respond to of 281500

Good column by Will on changes at the National Endowment of the Humanities. "History's Cultural Comeback" One of his (NEH's chairman, Bruce Cole,) missions is to reverse America's deepening amnesia, and especially the historical illiteracy of college students. Fresh evidence of the latter came last week from the National Association of Scholars, whose members defend academic standards against the depredations of those levelers who, rigorous only in applying the hedonistic calculus (see above), are draining rigor from curricula. A survey sponsored by the association, using questions on general cultural knowledge originally asked by the Gallup Organization in 1955, establishes that today's college seniors score little -- if any -- higher than 1955 high school graduates washingtonpost.com