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Karmazin has no problem with the free flow of information in a democracy. In fact, he's all for a diversity of voices: CBS has long owned competing news-radio stations in the same markets. But in the modern American media world--Viacom's world--the free flow of information had better be accompanied by the free flow of cash...
...close to "religious right," a voting segment that Bush would like to win without public wooing. But his choice of words cannot veil the fact that the proposal would represent a philosophical retreat, not only from the small-government rhetoric of the 1994 Republican Revolution, but also from the modern social compact that America has developed since the New Deal. Handing off some of the government's programs to religious charities would not only endanger the programs but would handicap the charities and abdicate social responsibility for social ills...
...troubling aspect of Bush's plan, however, is the notion that social services should be performed by religious charities rather than the agents of the public as a whole. Not all social services are the results of "compassion"; rather, they are part of the social compact that accompanies the modern economy. One of the unpleasant, but unavoidable, side effects of the economy is unemployment, and it is unlikely to disappear anytime soon. (For one thing, if unemployment were to fall below 4 percent tomorrow, the Federal Reserve would quickly jack up interest rates until a safe number of people were...
...Your Child's Emotional, Social, and Intellectual Development, Grades K-5 (Hyperion) "You can't just take it for granted that your child will have the same kind of learning experiences at school that you did," writes parenting expert Ann LaForge. Her book is a commonsense road map to modern elementary schools for parents. LaForge interviewed teachers, principals, school psychologists and other experts to develop her profiles of classrooms in each grade. She urges every parent to make a commitment to stay involved in his or her child's education, whether by volunteering, reading all the papers the school sends...
...young people--regardless of their class, location or ethnicity--should have essentially the same experience, spent with people exactly their age, in an environment defined by high school and pop culture." In his thoughtful book, Hine traces the history of teenagers in America, and the development of the modern high school, while questioning some of our presumptions about "the noble savage in blue jeans, the future in your face." Hine challenges the idea that teenagers should automatically be held back in their schooling, employment and sexual development for the sake of uniformity. Get ready for an even greater impact...