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Americans' impatience for quick-fix remedies resembles the frustration that drives inner-city youths to seize on illegal get-rich schemes: they want to cut corners, produce high yields and not pay a price. But grim experience indicates that, as with crime, hard time doesn't always pay the anticipated dividends. When money is poured into building another prison cell at the expense of rebuilding a prisoner's self-image, it is often just a prelude to more -- and worse -- crime. "They start as drug offenders, they eventually become property-crime offenders, and then they commit crimes against people," ( says...
Mariette Hartley is excellent as Sara, a nice Jewish girl from New York who went to Radcliffe and became a prominent international banker at a time when nice Jewish girls weren't supposed to do such things. Hartley succeeds in making real both Sara's public front and the inner worries that she is reluctant to display even to her sisters. Sara is a difficult part to play--she is both the most restrained of all the characters and the most important of them. Hartley keeps Sara on an even keel, displaying small flashes of humor without losing the essential...
...Vice President Al Gore '69 has picked upon the administration's emphasis on the community.In words that echoed those of President Clinton'sin Memphis less than a month earlier, Goredelivered a speech at Harvard's Kennedy School ofGovernment on December 6 where he introduced athree-step plan to empower inner-city andpoverty-stricken communities...
...White House no one is allowed to voice anything that sounds like criticism of Hillary. The last person who tried -- staff secretary John Podesta, who suggested that Mrs. Clinton might have had something to do with the dismissal of the White House travel-office staff -- was banished from the inner circle for months. It would take considerable bravery for a Clinton aide to face the President with advice to agree to a special counsel and let the chips fall where they may, since some of those chips might fall on his wife's head. Late last week, nonetheless, some senior...
...daughters of recent two-term Republican Presidents -- the rewards of painful self-reflection are more quantifiable: invitations to appear on Sally Jessy, book contracts, speaking engagements, invitations to appear on Oprah and so on. For celebrities, personal growth comes with a sense of obligation to suffer all the little inner children to come unto them, particularly if there is a fee involved...