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...approval as chief of the Justice Department's antitrust division last summer, even some Democratic Senators viewed him as a doormat for Big Business and tried to step on his appointment. All that changed last week when Klein audaciously hauled mighty Microsoft into court. Former critics now applaud him as a true trustbuster. The New York Times, which had called Klein's appointment "disheartening" in July, finds him to be "sensible" and "right" to take on Microsoft...
Proponents say these seminars carry the force of revelation. Attendees have been known to stand and cheer like converts at a tent meeting. But critics, careful always to applaud Efficacy's central objective of raising expectations, wonder whether the $1 million Baltimore spent on the program--equivalent to the starting salaries of 40 teachers--was money wisely used. "It's an example of what is wrong with urban education," says the Abell Foundation's Embry. "It was put in without any evidence of its working--without any evidence even expected...
...While I applaud the Promise Keepers' vows to mend their ways through penance, responsibility and religion, I cannot help feeling that this "boys' club" is merely a smoke screen for an effort to gain dangerous power over others. What would happen if these men kept their promises of love, respect and commitment toward loved ones without the burden of being "in command"? I find it frightening, yet sad, that they cannot separate love from power. JANIS BABCOCK Danville, Calif...
...applaud anyone who converts from irresponsible actions to responsible ones, but I don't think such a conversion entitles a person to a claim on leadership. MICHAEL J. FLEISSNER Milwaukee...
...currents which flow through American literature and how these forces affect the content of the literature that is produced. Similarly, I wonder about those traditions left out or until now ignored which have also had a significant contribution to the symbolic construction of the United States. Although I applaud and support the beginnings of a diversification within the English department, I cannot help but be concerned at the possible exclusion of Latino literature from the curriculum...