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...backgrounds," says Finn. "Like in a lot of urban areas, they're trapped in a cycle of poverty. Sometimes they've had alcohol or drug problems themselves or in their family; some have dropped out of Boston schools, which often fail to meet their needs...Life just hasn't dealt them a good situation...
Reagan's proudest economic achievement, taming the inflation rate from 12.5% in 1980 to 4.4% last year, has also dealt a blow to some major schools of thought. Monetarists like Nobel laureate Milton Friedman, who believe that slow and steady growth of the money supply is the key to prosperity, expected inflation to shoot up when the Federal Reserve suddenly pumped cash into the economy to halt the recession of 1981-82. But inflation failed to ignite because the slump was so deep that it left the economy with plenty of room to grow without pushing up prices...
...growing up in small-town simplicity and pursuing his first career in Hollywood, Reagan needed no tutoring in symbolism. By 1980 a frustrated, confused America had lost all patience with stagflation at home, impudent adversaries abroad and ambiguity from its leadership. The moment was perfect for a leader who dealt in stark simplicities. When he declared that "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem," he appealed to his countrymen's primordial suspicion of authority. When he talked of God's plan for American freedom, he revived the nation's self-image as uniquely blessed. When...
Though some of the questions dealt with difficult concepts or called for subjective judgments, the results showed that many high schools are failing to get even the basics across. Only 16 states insist that all students take an economics course to graduate...
...agent quoted by Hoover's biographer Richard Gid Powers, during the early '60s "in about 90% of the situations in which bureau personnel referred to Negroes, the word 'nigger' was used." Until 1962 there were only five black FBI agents: Hoover's chauffeurs, houseboy and messenger. During the period dealt with in Burning, Hoover's bureau was indeed engaged in a lawless campaign against an enemy. But its target was Martin Luther King Jr. It began with wiretaps and buggings, approved by then Attorney General Robert Kennedy, aimed at digging up proof that King was under the influence of suspected...