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...defense budget could be reduced by much. In the end, he delivered a 25% cut in the military, which required a major rethinking of Pentagon doctrine, and an ambitious and politically difficult plan for closing military bases in the U.S. He also went after some of the expensive but dubious weapons programs he had supported in Congress. He canceled the Navy's $57 billion A-12 attack jet, a move that stunned the weapons industry, and denounced the Pentagon procurement chiefs in public for lying about weapons costs, a problem that Reagan's Defense Secretary, Caspar Weinberger, would never...
...effects of prejudice or poor schools but by a "cult of anti-intellectualism" that has infected black America from the ghetto to the middle class. Black students, including those at elite universities, he says, "are really disinclined to think that hard" about subjects other than their own victimization. This dubious insight came to McWhorter in the days before California's Proposition 209 outlawed the use of race in admissions. After noticing that "the black students were the worst students on campus," he concluded they were held back by three "defeatist thought patterns...
...every successful Yukta or Lara who goes on to tear-drenched smiles as she receives her bouquet and tiara, thousands of other hopefuls end up humiliated and exploited. More and more young men and women are signing up with costly, dubious Indian modeling institutes, where a two-week session and a photo portfolio can run up to $1,000. The desire to break through to the beauty elite can force women into unsavory situations. Anorexia and steroid abuse are increasing. There are many stories of fixed contests, nepotism and the casting couch. "Most of our people are out-of-towners...
This strategy has been effective, but it has also meant that the debate has taken place on what is often dubious grounds. Death alone does not trigger a tax; passing on a large estate does. And those mom-and-pop sob stories are overblown. The fact is, less than 2% of the federal revenue derived from estate taxes comes from farms and small businesses...
...monthly fee--around the price of a single CD--to have online access to thousands of albums. This music channel--along with the CDs already in their collections--will be available anywhere there's an Internet connection. Robertson believes the mainstream will choose this limited-pay model over legally dubious networks like Napster and Freenet. Thus far the rise of MP3s "has been painted as a college-kids-gone-crazy phenomenon," he says. "In fact, it cuts across all walks of life...