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...cautioned that the Internet is a relatively new concept to which society will gradually need to adjust itself...
...lessons of Bowling Park, where the student body is overwhelmingly black and low income, are not just for schools that serve the poor. In fact, Zigler's concept of expanding school into a full-day, year-round enterprise is equally crucial to middle-class parents at Sycamore Hills Elementary School in Independence, Missouri, where students are mostly white...
...Russia today "freedom shock," to use Guzman's term, is explained succinctly by Roman, a 42-year-old taxi driver in Yaroslavl. "People have no concept of freedom," he says. "They substitute freedom of action for freedom of thought. They see freedom as license. They don't realize freedom requires self-discipline. They fear that freedom leads to anarchy. They view it as the ability, if one can, to lord it over those weaker than they are." This may explain why, in a survey of almost 2,500 Russians conducted in January by Richard Rose, a professor at the University...
John Grisham's 1991 thriller, The Firm, offered an inside-the-ant-colony view of lawyers being loathsome, a redundant concept that made him rich and had readers roaring for more. His subsequent page turners wandered from this antijuridical obsession to a more casual sort of barrister bashing that occasionally had other things on its mind. In The Runaway Jury (Doubleday; 401 pages; $26.95), obsession is back...
...other national news show in the immediate future. But with Fox chief Rupert Murdoch vowing to launch a 24-hour cable news channel in the fall--and with a growing roster of network-level talent signing up to help him, led by former CNBC chief Roger Ailes--the concept of Fox News may no longer be an oxymoron...