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...institution that could make good on the Constitution's promise of equality. According to a 1997 Gallup poll, most Americans are happy with public schools. Few parents in Greenwich, Conn., would take their child out of its fine public schools for a voucher of $1,600. But in inner-city Hartford, many parents would sensibly embrace them, which would leave the public schools there in even worse shape. And where will those parents clutching vouchers go? Not to Andover, which costs more than $20,000 annually. Not to the suburbs, where many may resent vouchers as busing by other means...
MOYERS: The psychologist Jonathan Young says that whether we say, "I'm trusting my inner voice," or use more traditional language--"I'm trusting the Holy Spirit," as we do in the Christian tradition--somehow we're acknowledging that we're not alone in the universe. Is this what Ben Kenobi urges upon Luke Skywalker when he says, "Trust your feelings...
...grown from a simple beginning, has evolved into some wonderful forms. The garden is both terrestrial and a dreamscape, a deliberate arrangement of living things that makes one forget about time and engages all the senses without demanding logic. It is the outer life meant to reverberate in the inner life, which is what it evidently does for Raven...
...second postwar phenomenon that may contribute to this American trend is suburbia -- mass shootings by high schoolers appear to be confined to mostly white, suburban schools, rather than the inner city communities more commonly plagued by gun violence. "Violence in minority neighborhoods and schools tends to be gang- and drug-related," says TIME correspondent Elaine Rivera. "In suburbia, though, it appears to be influenced by intense alienation and isolation, combined with easy access to guns and a culture that teaches kids, in everything from movies to foreign policy, that violence is a valid means of resolving problems." The isolation...
...some hope that, as a full member of theUniversity's inner circle rather than a naggingneighbor, Radcliffe will now have the power toaffect real change for Harvard's women--studentsand faculty...