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...there were perhaps 50 families home-schooling their kids in Wichita. Afraid that the practice violated Kansas law, they met in secret and kept their children inside during school hours. Most publishers refused to sell them teachers' guides, assuming they wanted the answer sheets to help their kids cheat. So they bought the textbooks Christian schools were throwing away. Home-schooled kids didn't have many academic or extracurricular outlets, which was all right, since almost all were under...
...expect excuses from Clinton. His supporters argue that the voters elected an admitted adulterer, so they should have factored in the possibility that he would cheat again. The "What did you expect?" excuse rests alongside "Other Presidents have done it," "Sophisticated world leaders are not alarmed," "It wasn't really sex," and "Whatever it was, it was private...
...flip it. Most of the country thinks you are a liar and a cheat. A zealous prosecutor is working overtime to put you into early retirement. Every single night, the comics who truly write the first draft of history spit on you and smile. Your attempts to hide behind the powers of your office have diminished them as a result. Your hands are tied overseas; at home your agenda is dead. Your only daughter is back from college, and whatever you decide to say, you have to explain to her first. Your wife looks...
Harris' clever and witty book makes this argument with power, but that's partly because she doesn't brake for subtleties. A classic 1928 study, she writes, found that children who violated rules at home "were not noticeably more likely than anyone else to cheat on a test at school or in a game on the playground." Actually, that study did find some correlation between honesty inside and outside the home. And psychologist Douglas Jackson has reanalyzed the data with modern statistical techniques and found a very high correlation...
...detonate large bombs; you win medals; you could get killed. In that summer house, the men understood that regardless of the origin of the game, you still have to analyze the plays. You still have to keep statistics. You still have to play to win. You still have to cheat...