Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Inner cities, poor rural areas and apparently even suburbs--It's no longer a question of students graduating high school with 5th-grade reading levels. Many young people can't even read at all. The author and teacher Jonathan Kozol has said that more than 25 million Americans are illiterate. If people are unable to read, our entire democracy is in danger...
THIS IS not the first time that such allegations have been made. A few years ago, a French author wrote a book denying the existence of gas chambers in German concentration camps. Never before, however, has an historical revision of the Nazi period involved leading politicians as well as eminent intellectuals...
Professor Charles Moskos of Northwestern University, author of a forthcoming book on national service, advocates tying a voluntary program to educational loans and grants as a way of attracting a cross section of American youth. His plan would deny federal aid to college-age students who have not performed a year of national service. Moskos admits this would create a loophole for wealthy students, who can afford college without any assistance, but he would willingly agree to a solution proposed by Columnist William Buckley: getting the U.S.'s top colleges to require that students spend a year in national service...
Thus is joined a fictional battle involving real-life combatants. But Author Max Apple's second novel does not try to generate much suspense over the outcome. Even in the wackiest narrative, the existence of Disney World would be difficult to ignore or disprove. Instead, The Propheteers uses a supposed struggle in Orlando as a farfetched excuse to noodle imaginatively and affectionately with some American myths. What, specifically, might it feel like to be someone whose private, obsessive vision is miraculously rewarded with fortune and fame...
Nevertheless, even Democratic Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, co- author of a bill to withhold the funds, concedes that the contras will get their money. Senators who voted for the contra aid bill last year are unwilling to reverse their stand so quickly, Dodd believes. Moreover, if both the House and Senate voted for an aid cutoff, they still could not round up the two-thirds majorities needed to override a certain presidential veto. Dodd doubts that the issue will come to a Senate vote. Says he: "I'm not sure if it makes sense to hand the President...