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...like raising taxes and appearing aloof. But that public self-abasement was just a first step in the aggressive campaign that returned him to office in 1982. And nestled among his remorseful words at the prayer breakfast last week was the passing observation that, all the same, "I will instruct my lawyers to mount a vigorous defense" against Kenneth Starr's allegations...
...interest-group politics and pressure from powerful parents. Revamping special-education laws, to give school districts more flexibility in distributing resources, would give a boost to woodwork kids. So would offering incentives for schools to minimize ability grouping or bonuses for schools that put top-notch teachers--who generally instruct gifted children--in middle-achieving classrooms. Michigan State's Schmidt says the predicament of America's average students illustrates the need for a set of "national standards that would articulate what all of our kids need to know." But the first step may be even simpler--as simple as challenging...
...Does it mean that Presidents can have sexual relations with 21-year-olds in the room next to the Oval Office and that if we look into it we are "prying into private lives"? Has he learned anything? Will this happen again? Is it quite right for him to instruct the public to "turn away from the spectacle" and "repair the fabric of our national discourse"? Who caused this spectacle? Whose actions led to the most recent deep tearing of the fabric...
Relations with the Palestinians are another fault line. Some 56% of secular Israelis support the peace process, compared with only 9% of the haredim and 24% of the so-called modern Orthodox. One group of rabbis went so far as to instruct army soldiers to disobey any order to withdraw from parts of the West Bank, an invitation to insurrection. A survey last fall showed that 27% of religious teenagers condone the murder of Rabin...
...daughter can store the money any way she wants--on her laptop, on a debit card, even (in the not too distant future) on a chip implanted under her skin. And, perhaps best of all, you can program the money to be spent only in specific ways. You might instruct some of the digits to go for books, some for food and some for movies. Unless you pass along a few digits that can be cashed at the local pub, she'll have to find someone else to buy the drinks...