Word: musts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this great period of transition and change. You can find a new wardrobe, you can change your religion, you can switch from Coke to Pepsi--but you can never start from scratch. Before you despair, though, consider that this is not necessarily a bad thing. Remember that you must have been doing something right in high school, since you got yourself here...
...society, ranging from Socrates to Emerson, could have been chemically corrected for their own good to better adhere to the norm. If everyone conformed, schools could successfully be made up of "productive" students who effectively stick with traditional studies and perhaps make the honor roll. It seems that we must eliminate the deviant geniuses and artists in favor of the conforming sycophants whom some see as the fountainhead of societal progress. O brave new world! JOHN M. DE PALMA Succsunna...
...HELLO, I MUST BE GOING Feel that you're never around to see your kids? You're not alone. The President's Council of Economic Advisers recently quantified what plenty of folks have observed anecdotally. The rise in two-earner families, as well as single-parent families, results in parents' spending on average 22 fewer hours with their children each week than they did in 1969. That's almost a full day per week of lost parental attention. Fathers are actually spending slightly more time with their children--about two extra hours a week--than they did 30 years...
...gang member and his father are hanging out near Wrigley Field. Are they there "to rob an unsuspecting fan or just to get a glimpse of Sammy Sosa leaving the ball park?" A police officer has no idea, but under Chicago's anti-gang law, the cop must order them to disperse. With Stevens writing for a 6-to-3 majority, the Supreme Court last week struck down Chicago's sweeping statute, which had sparked 42,000 arrests in its three years of enforcement...
Even if the kids don't touch each other, they can still annoy each other--and you. Caroline Keens, a Virginia mother of two, forestalls battles over the car's air temperature by insisting that everyone wear the same number of layers, and music choices must be unanimous. But she also knows she can only do so much. "If you remove the arguments altogether," she says, "they don't have any way of learning how to negotiate." When the bickering is truly unbearable, don't attempt your dad's brand of auto discipline, circa 1965: steering with your left hand...