Word: ideas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...classic Jiang moment--casual, charming, energizing. He is, after all, a man who can recite from memory sections of the Gettysburg Address--in English. His training as an engineer has given him a reverence for technology and a fluency with the idea of an information economy that make him an ideal leader for a Net-ready nation. And his instincts have always been behind Zhu's economic-reform program, despite opposition from conservative heavyweights in the party. Even today he relies on the advice of his American-educated son Jiang Mianheng...
...Chant Down Babylon (Tuff Gong/Island). The album features duets with Marley and some of today's best hip-hop performers, including Lauryn Hill and Busta Rhymes. The hip-hoppers supply new vocals, while Marley's are drawn from alternate takes in decades-old recording sessions. "We got the idea, well, from Daddy basically," says Marley's son Stephen, who served as executive producer. "It was one of his dreams to get to the urban youth of America...
...adult for permission before turning it on. Parents should convey to their children that watching television is a planned activity. A friend of mine goes through the TV listings with his three sons to discuss what they'd like to watch, and I think that's a great idea. The TV should be turned off when a particular show is over. Parents should also make an effort to become familiar with the shows that their kids watch. Television can provoke useful conversations within families, much as I remember having with my parents when we watched All in the Family together...
...publication) constantly referred to the political and social beliefs of the two murderers, giving them a national platform. A group of Ohio teens have a social message that they want the world to know about, and so they plan an attack on their school. Where would they get this idea? From video games? Movies? I believe they were inspired by the media's coverage of the Columbine incident and other school shootings, where every aspect of the murderers' lives is reported on TV and in the press, making them heroes to troubled teens. The media should devote more space...
...capital-gains tax cut of about $35 billion, a reduction that would yield a "quite significant bang for the buck," in Sinai's phrase, in spurring investment and entrepreneurial incentive. The Democrats propose a tax cut that is really a savings incentive--in Sinai's opinion, a good idea. They would increase government spending on the military and through transfers for education and other social purposes and reduce debt much more than would the Republicans--although the Republican reduction of $257 billion over 10 years from non-Social Security surpluses is scarcely a pittance. The Democratic spending proposals, in Sinai...