On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:42:36 -0600, with neither quill nor qualm, F.
George McDuffee quickly quoth:

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:24:58 -0400, "Ed Huntress"
wrote:
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It's not that hard. Most kids pass high school civics. Apparently you found
it a challenge.
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Its the traditional problem of how things *SHOULD* work [or
worked at one time] v. how they *DO* work. Not only do high
school civics classes have this problem but also the university
political science classes.

For example, Condoleezza Rice earned her bachelor's degree in
political science, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from the
University of Denver in 1974; her master's from the University of
Notre Dame in 1975;

How do you jump from a BA to a MA degree in -one- year, pray tell?

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