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Leave it to television to figure out how to give the dismal science some Hollywood glitter. Free to Choose, Nobel-prizewinning Economist Milton Friedman's current ten-part series on the Public Broadcasting Service, has turned economics into an eye-filling travelogue. As the sun slowly sets on beautiful Hong Kong harbor, the shirt-sleeved Friedman credits the crown colony's prosperity to the absence of government controls on business. In gaudy Las Vegas, Friedman expounds on the workings of the market system while standing next to a working roulette wheel. Later, thundering Niagara Falls represents Canada, where...
...teach anything except how to smoke a joint and rock dancing." But before he leaves, someone asks him about how to convince others to jump aboard the LaRouche bandwagon. In a moment of weakness, LaRouches tells of his campaign trail frustrations. "You talk to people, and they say that Milton Friedman would disagree. What you've got to do is remove the influence of Milton Friedman. Milton Friedman is a Nazi...
...marvel at Golding's versatility despite such small deficiencies in clarity. He's perhaps the only author with whom Salinger, Joyce, and Milton would equally enjoy a conversation: Salinger for his views on children, Joyce for his ability to turn revelation into destruction, and Milton, for his vision of evil. If this hypothetical dialogue were to take place, Golding would sit back comfortably and invoke lines similar to these near the end of Darkness Visible...
Other critics claim that some students going to private schools such as Andover and Exeter are trained many years in advance on how to take the tests. Milton Academy, for example, holds SAT preparation sessions. Many other schools such as the Detroit Country Day School in Michigan have started to coach their students and others in "exam tricks." Coaching centers such as Test Prep Services, the John Sexton Test Preparation Center, and the Stanley Kaplan Educational Center, all with branches in Boston, help people who can pay the fee to improve their scores. Until recently, ETS refused to admit that...
...Free to Choose, Milton & Rose Friedman...