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...take the medicine, you cure the patient. If you don't take the medicine, you feel better at the time, but then you get sicker," she said...
Many Choice proponents, like Chester Finn -- whose proposals for reform appear in a new book, We Must Take Charge -- do not believe school competition will cure all the ills of urban education. Still, Finn asks the blunt question: "Under Choice, would the kids attending inner-city schools be any worse off than they are today?" There is something irredeemably tragic about the question. But equally sad is the difficulty of framing either an affirmative answer or a plausible alternative vision for dramatically uplifting disadvantaged students...
...other side, policymakers in the U.S., Britain, Canada and the Netherlands remained convinced that throwing money at Gorbachev was no cure for his country's crippling economic ills. Without major structural changes, said Dutch Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek, even generous cash and credits were destined to end up "like a drop of water on a hot stove...
Whatever is done to help the Soviets, no one was expecting a rapid cure for the nation's profound malaise. Predicted a top Bush Administration analyst: "In the short run, things will probably get worse." A senior White House official wondered if devolution of power would result in real market freedoms or just "central control by ((each of)) the 15 republics." He added: "I'm not sure even the reformers understand the difference...
Today, despite continuing brilliant work by U.S. scientists, attention seems focused on their failings and excesses, both real and perceived. Why, critics ask, after a decade of effort, have researchers not found a cure for AIDS, or why can't they figure out, after nearly a half-century, how to store nuclear wastes safely or build spacecraft that work? Why do they concoct compounds that end up as toxic waste or court danger by tinkering with genes...