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America's federal stinginess with the arts and humanities does it immense discredit. By contrast, every candidate in the last French election, from the socialist Lionel Jospin to the conservative victor Jacques Chirac, agreed that fully 1% of France's state budget should be set aside for culture. This will cost each taxpayer about $50 a year and is wholly uncontroversial. Nobody complains in Germany either, though federal cultural subsidies cost each taxpayer $38 and city ones even more: Berlin, for instance, will spend 1.1 billion marks ($800 million) in fiscal 1995, 2.6% of its total municipal budget...
...familiar with his formidable oeuvre of TV utterances--his book is kind of a Cliffs Notes version--you can guess the culprits. The "bureaucrats" have helped destroy the family, undermine the work ethic and dumb down education. Meanwhile, the liberal "elites" (in a "calculated effort") have helped "discredit this civilization," sapping faith in American values...
...otherwise cast doubt on the murder "time line" created by the prosecution. Again, one of the witnesses Cochran brandished so proudly in opening arguments, Rosa Lopez, will probably be dropped. Her videotaped testimony is an embarrassment, and the defense knows the prosecution has other witnesses available to discredit...
Kabawat disagreed. "I don't know if Governor Weld will answer to instances of childish behavior," he said of the tenant groups' effort to discredit Fried. "I hope...
Although I was raised a Jews, to discredit my criticism of Israel and the 40 years of anti-Defamation League spying on Americans I was designated Italian and anti-Semitic. After 10 years, I am still vilified as a bigoted Italian, though neither of my parents came form that country. It shows the extent of deceptions employed by Foxman and his though police. For a lengthy description of these and other tactics to discredit critics, see Prof. Noam Chomsky's Fateful triangle. Roy Bercaw Cambridge...