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...comes to electing mayors, Americans have never been fussy about character. The mayor can cheat on his taxes or his wife, but if the garbage is picked up and the snow plowed, no one cares very much. Like the mayor of these United States, Clinton has done a decent job of minding the store, keeping the economy ticking over, and steadily announcing small-bore solutions to everyday problems, proposing school uniforms, cellular-phone service to fight crime, and curfews. Without World War III to worry about, the Chief Executive turns into President Pothole...
Those who argue on the first basis are right to some extent; some fraternities are filled with s.o.b.'s and really benefit no one but their members. But the vast majority of houses attract decent, everyday guys who are simply looking for a different social scene, and to stereotype all greek organizations is wrong. Additionally, individuals who misbehave while in fraternities are likely to be the types who will misbehave anywhere. A woman can be date-raped as easily in a dorm room as a fraternity house. As for the issue of campus life, fraternities can undoubtedly lead to some...
...wish I could just enjoy it. This newly reignited bull market in stocks is minting millionaires from Wall Street to Silicon Valley. Normal folks, who have found it tough to get a decent raise in the stingy 1990s, are benefiting too by using mutual funds to build nest eggs that they hope will fund their kids' college educations and their own retirement. It's all very exciting and, like a pot of Mom's ham bone and string beans, a nourishing meal for anyone with enough courage to sit at the table...
...editor Maxwell King insists that the Inquirer has "managed to stay whole in all the important ways." This fall, for instance, the paper ran a series, "America: Who Stole the Dream?," for which two reporters spent more than two years, beginning before the 1995 cutbacks, researching the loss of decent jobs for blue-collar workers. King does not object to the demand for double-digit profitability, but he does wonder what further compromises may be necessary to achieve it. "We have stuck stubbornly to substance, and we've lost a lot of circulation," he says. "What makes a newspaper successful...
...Indian or otherwise, is Sherman Alexie (Reservation Blues, The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven). His latest, Indian Killer (Atlantic Monthly Press; 420 pages; $22), is a murderous urban legend not calculated to calm anyone's racial unease. Rage builds slowly in the heart of John Smith, a decent but troubled Native American who was taken--stolen, actually--from his 14-year-old Indian mother and adopted by well-meaning whites. Unreconciled to his new life but unable to speak a native language, and not even knowing which tribe his mother belonged to, he lives a solitary existence...