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...classmate in 1999, principal Mike Chavez has visited every classroom to talk about the damage of spreading baseless rumors. The Santee news didn't cause a flurry of bogus threats or panicky tips at Deming this week, as it did at so many other schools. Similarly, officials in Jefferson County, Colo., home of Columbine, say the results of two surveys--one taken last year and one just before the carnage--show that the district's students did not feel less safe a year after the killings. Which is sad in a way: you don't fear what you know intimately...
Well, maybe you don't see the danger to our democracy. Briefly, the more inequality there is in society, the lower the likelihood of democracy. Hence Jefferson's ideal of an agrarian utopia...
...believe, like Jefferson, that the basis of our democracy rests on the solid shoulders of a substantial middle class. I believe there is something inherent about equality that fosters and reinforces democracy in a way that social mobility cannot. Until Harvard reduces its tuition burden for the precious middle, and until George W.'s tax cut crashes and burns in Congress instead of on earth, I'll be crossing my fingers and hoping against extinction...
...fugitive tax cheater who flouted the U.S. judicial system for two decades and who got richer by trading with Iran, Clinton used an absolute power of the office in a way no President had before. U.S. history has seen its share of controversial presidential pardons: Andrew Johnson's of Jefferson Davis fueled his impeachment; Gerald Ford's of Richard Nixon helped cost him his re-election. But while Johnson and Ford paid a price in their time, history has also found larger purposes in those decisions. Even the elder Bush's Christmas 1992 pardon of Caspar Weinberger after the Iran...
...During a brief moment in Shakespeare's play when Coriolanus has agreed to flatter the masses, he promises, "I'll mountebank their loves." That brings up the subject of William Jefferson Clinton, who is America's outstanding mountebank of love. Much of his own crowd has now turned on Clinton and cast him down from the Tarpeian Rock. Hard to think of Clinton as Coriolanus, of course; the Roman was a man of fierce principle. Clinton is more like Sportin' Life. Our first black president, as Toni Morrison called him, has banished himself to 125th Street, there to condescend...