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Even in the two important votes that took place in Congress last week, in which Republicans could claim at least partial victories, the political gain went to the other side. Seven months after the fiscal year began, Congress finally passed a 1996 budget that included $23 billion in G.O.P. cuts. Legal services to the poor, subsidized public housing and the National Endowment for the Arts took sharp hits. Republicans promised to halt the growth of government spending, and they...
...areas. Both railed against industrialism, distrusted the government, withdrew from society and rejected progress, materialism, invention and the machine. But Thoreau, while certainly a radical, was also somewhat of a visionary. He communed intensely with nature. The Unabomber suspect, however, like Karl Marx and others who used violence to gain their ends, killed, maimed and fostered civil disorder. Thoreau was a man of learning who gave sage instruction. The Unabomber is a man of cunning who wreaks violent destruction. One seeks to define the meaning of life; the other violates it. LEE G. MESTRES Yardley, Pennsylvania...
...Hizballah rockets, Rabin would have acted exactly as Peres has. But at a time when Israel's counterstrikes are being criticized as an election ploy designed to portray Peres as tough, the Prime Minister must work overtime to rebut the idea that he is acting only for political gain--even if that perception is grossly unfair. War heroes like Rabin know (or learn) that a measured response is a luxury most easily enjoyed by the strong--or those seen as strong. Incapable of replicating Rabin's exceptional military credentials, Peres should realize that he can derive the same strength from...
...whole discussion of desegregation is corrupted by the fact that we mix up race and class," says Harvard sociologist Orfield. "You don't gain anything from sitting next to somebody with a different skin color. But you gain a lot from moving from an isolated poverty setting into a middle-class setting." National statistics provide suggestive evidence that desegregation raises blacks' academic achievement (without lowering whites'), despite its apparent failure in such high-profile cases as Yonkers--where middle-class flight left low-income students concentrated in high-poverty schools. A massive 1993 Department of Education study of Chapter...
...what real difference does a marginally earlier date make?" In antiquity, some 20 to 25 years was not marginal; that was the working life-span of a whole generation. And with a date prior to A.D. 70, when the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple occurred, we gain new insights into the historical Jesus, who prophesied both events. Records from eyewitnesses remain fundamental, and they are a challenge to scholars as much as to skeptics and believers. CARSTEN PETER THIEDE Paderborn, Germany...