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...Mostly, the Clintons clucked over the dismal hodgepodge of day care in this country, the worst in the industrialized world. It's not just that we aren't soft and indulgent, like Sweden. It's that the average pay for caregivers is $12,000 annually; the average training is nil; and there are few standards to speak of. There is massive burnout and turnover. Day care at the work site is rare. And although most juvenile crime occurs between the hours of 3 p.m. and 7 p.m.--as do many teenage pregnancies, I'd wager--programs to keep kids occupied...
...days when our national security was allegedly under constant threat from the world behind the Iron Curtain, it is understandable though not at all excusable that we would pounce on any holiday we deemed "un-American." But now the threat has been reduced to nil and Americans can rest assured of their global supremacy for many years to come. The threats that remain are increasingly internal and perpetuated not by lunatic leftist radicals but by their right-wing counter-parts. Now that the national security/communist menace legitimization of repression is gone, it is time to liberate May Day and return...
...Harvard continues to wallow in a puddle of general inconsistency. Were the Crimson to have taken nil points from a road trip like this, say, just after its Beanpot debacles, nobody would have been terribly surprised. But after showing glimpses of brilliance last week, losing narrowly at Cornell one night and then toying with a good Colgate team for long stretches the next, a lot of people might have expected more from this latest odyssey...
...hour travelogues? Unless this team somehow finds a way to come together at just the right moment and solve its mysterious problems, problems which loom much larger than those faced by last year's team at this juncture of the season, such prospective voyages do rather seem to have nil point...
...been used to strangle her, and gangster-style graffiti was scrawled on her abdomen in black ink. While the country focused on the case of another brutalized child--this one a privileged little beauty queen in Colorado--public outrage over the comatose Girl X was at first virtually nil...