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...Alameda County alone, the welfare budget has risen $24 million in one year to $136,666,000. "End the legal cheating," Mrs. Whitner demanded of the supervisors. Just in case the point was missed, she presented examples from her own experience, including the names and addresses of offenders. "If you won't do this," she threatened, "I'll teach others how to cheat." The official response was a yawn. That was a mistake...
Annie, please don't cheat...
...accepted the comfortable, generally sound idea that, by seeking wealth for themselves, they would create jobs, goods?and wealth ?for others. In modern America, owners and managers figured that their chief duty was to make the biggest profit they could, subject to some qualifying commandments: Thou Shalt Not Cheat Customers, Thou Shalt Not Oppress Workers, Thou Shalt Not Conspire with Competitors. As a citizen, the U.S. executive might worry about housing, education or public health. As a corporate official, he typically considered such things none of his business...
...from their textbooks, the students staged a minor riot. At Mainpuri a proctor who caught students cribbing was hacked to death with knives. In Gorakhpur, a high school student brought his homicidal Alsatian dog to bare his fangs at any teacher who tried to interfere with his right to cheat. Cheating, of course, is not much of an issue on U.S. campuses these days. With all the student unrest and closed-down universities, there are far fewer exams available for the taking...
...Burrell. "It is not the system," says Dunne, "but what Lonergan does. He moves from one horizon to another while talking about insight. It is a voyage of discovery." For Tracy, whose book The Achievement of Bernard Lonergan will be published next month, Lonergan means: "You can't cheat. You know what is demanded of real thinking." Michael Novak finds Lonergan's importance in the fact that all education is the developing of insights. But "this is not a school of philosophy," warns Novak. "Nobody can have your insights for you. If you make a school...