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American reporting on Israel is often biased and shallow, but an indifferent public does not reward more thorough coverage, Marvin Kalb, director of the Kennedy School's Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on Press, Politics and Public Policy, said last night...
...comes through on television is extremely important in measuring that politician's success," said Marvin Kalb, former chief diplomatic correspondent at CBS and NBC News and current director of the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics and Policy at the Kennedy School...
Some have charged Reagan with misusing the presidency. Although most Presidents have used the White House for partisan purposes, critics say, there should be limits. Said Marvin Kalb, director of Harvard's center on the press, politics and public policy: "The President should be conducting the nation's business, but when he does it in a highly partisan way, there is the perception that he is at least unfair, if not improper...
...critics argue that these standards stack the deck against a member of a minority group; they are likened to the literacy tests once used to prevent Southern blacks from voting. "Some of the criteria that sound neutral and non-racially discriminatory are in effect proxies for race," says Criminologist Marvin Wolfgang...
...economic underclass. A hike in the minimum wage, many economists point out, would eliminate opportunities for people who are less well educated or just entering the job market. Low-paying training jobs that provide work experience and employment skills will be the first to go, contends Marvin Kosters, director of economic policy studies for the American Enterprise Institute. Says he: "Increasing the minimum wage hurts those workers who can least afford...