After a succession of short runs through the salt marshes and vineyards of Languedoc, linking together many towns of considerable size, the Catalan joins the P.L.M. main line at Tarascon, ….

Weavers, reelers, wadders and those working in the filature refused to move, and when forced, produced inferior quality goods or ran away at the earliest opportunity, partly because they were separated from their families […]

There is no refuge from reality in teaching, no orderly life in a kind of Disney World of the mind where nothing really dangerous ever happens and a predictable good time is had by all.

By proposing to eliminate Title II programs for fiscal year 1992, President Bush is sending America's colleges and universities, and those they seek to educate a most disheartening message: that he is willing to mouth the words “educational excellence,” but he is not willing to invest in the programs that can make such excellence realizable.