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...dermatologist. The doctor keeps you waiting because he has power over you, like a bureaucrat in Bulgaria in the old days. Indeed, visiting the doctor's office is like a taste of socialism -- the crowded waiting room with little to read but hectoring posters, the feeling of helplessness, the endless forms to fill out. Which is ironic, since the typical doctor's office is the most free-enterprise corner of the most free-enterprise medical system in the advanced world...
...another sense, the spiritual windfall is a reaction to the endless , barrage of carnage films during the '80s. Audiences are sated with special effects and numbing gore. Moviegoers want to explore the big eternal questions instead, and many of these viewers have not had a traditional religious upbringing. "Conventional religion used to help you deal with death," says Lindsay Doran, producer of Dead Again. "Now this is gone; those comforts have been taken away...
Catholic educators are proud that their institutions eschew the shopping- mall approach they see in public high schools, where students shop around for courses among endless electives. Their high schools routinely offer fewer electives and require a heavier load of basics than do inner-city public schools: four years of English; three years or more of math; three years of science, foreign language and social science; and at least one year of computer science. Students must show proficiency in a course before they can move up a grade. Period...
...most compelling chapters in his book cover 1968, when, as Secretary of Defense, he overcame much of the Washington foreign policy and military establishment in the "war for the President's mind." He and a few allies persuaded Lyndon Johnson to try to "extricate our nation from an endless war." Vietnam, Clifford argued, was "unwinnable at any reasonable level of American participation...
...Kurds were dying. Starvation, exposure and disease were killing as many as 1,000 a day. And that brute fact overcame the nervousness about being sucked into an endless political and perhaps military quagmire. Prodded by distressed allies, by outraged U.S. and European public opinion, and not least by his own conscience, George Bush last week finally did what he should have done long before: set in motion an unprecedented and bold operation that might at last bring effective succor to the Kurds -- at least to the 850,000 or so squatting along the Iraq-Turkey border and possibly...