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...economic experiments," able to try out public policy in a way the lumbering national government cannot. But subsidiarity is not the only principle of good government, and there are good reasons for skepticism about the current fad for solving every problem of the nation (welfare, health care, environmental regulation, etc.) by dumping it on the separate states...
...lads politely introduce themselves to the radio audience. "I'm George, and I play a guitar," etc. Then the Beatles' leader speaks: "I'm John, and I too play a guitar. Sometimes I play the fool." In the beginning, John Lennon was the group's soul and wit, its Elvis and its Groucho. But unlike Elvis, the early Beatles had the quick, larky humor of kids assured enough to make fun of themselves and everyone else. And unlike the Marx Brothers, these were no anarchists -- they were many a mother's daydream of the pop star her daughter might bring...
...news, so far, is mixed. In the U.S. most video-game makers are having a miserable year. Specialty stores such as Babbages, Software ETC. and the Electronics Boutique report that sales of video-game software and hardware are down 15% to 30% from last year. At K-Mart and Toys "R" Us, games like Gauntlet and SolarStriker that used to sell for $30 or $40 are marked down to $9.99. The good news for Hawkins, however, is that America is no longer the center of the video-game business. The real action this year is in Japan, where parents...
Thus you--you Mr. Bloodworth, you Ms. Clarke, etc.--should form tutorial programs for the millions of poor Black children in our cities--programs in reading, thinking, math, historical reasoning, biology, etc. We already have a fine example of this viable, helping-hand-to-Black-poor activity to imitate--namely, the activity of former Harvard student Rev. Eugene Rivers, organized through a Pentecostal mission church program in Boston...
...were not prompted by cathartic needs to do this. I can't imagine a more productive way to teach Black children the significance of unity, cooperation, creativity, faith etc., than in a way that engages them through Afrocentric means directly in the classroom. Kwanzaa is the penultimate expression of formalized African-Diasporic significance in America...