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There are two major drawbacks to this argument for toleration. First, it says nothing about what is valuable about diversity, if it's valuable at all. It's just a fact. So we merely have to learn to cope with reality. If we can learn to like pluralism or celebrate it, so much the better. If some people don't like it, tough luck. The second drawback is that the pragamatic argument for toleration is supremely intolerant in its own way. It says that nothing is more important than being able to agree, get along, and cope. Principle, religious conviction...
...than a year, as opposed to 6% in the U.S. The social-protection system designed to help people through the rough patches "suddenly is needed massively and for a long time by millions of jobless," says Lothar Stock, who heads a social-welfare organization in Frankfurt. "The system cannot cope with these new conditions...
Royer said President Clinton's $16 billion stimulus plan, which was killed on the Senate floor, probably would have stimulated the economy by helping cities cope with the problems of housing, transportation and health care...
...will thousands of kids cope without...
...does not have to repeat itself. A growing number of community organizations are trying to prevent further tragedy by starting support groups for children orphaned or about to be orphaned by AIDS. Over the past three years, counselors at the St. Francis Center in Washington have helped the kids cope with depression, fear of abandonment, and the lifelike visions some have of their dead parents. "The teenagers, in particular, are caught in a squeeze," says Dottie Ward-Wimmer, a nurse at St. Francis who specializes in grief counseling. "They're older. They're smarter. They know that if their mother...