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ARGENTINA has often been called the great 'enigma' of Latin America. A country with tremendous natural resources, a well-educated citizenry, an industrial base and a highly advantageous geopolitical position, it has nevertheless suffered through a halfcentury of economic crises, political instability, and near hyperinflation. Once considered the economic giant of Latin America and an emerging world power, it is now deeply impoverished and deeply in debt...
EVEN if a Harvard education is not based on the Great Books themselves, a Harvard education is far too often based on what might be called "Great Books attitudes." Even if Harvard itself is not quite part of the Real World, the students here do all come from there, and it would be unreasonable to expect us not to come here with some of the attitudes of Bennett and Allen Bloom...
...HOURS: RETURN TO CRACK STREET (CBS, Sept. 14, 8 p.m. EDT). CBS's often ! absorbing, occasionally overheated series of slice-of-life snapshots launches its new season by revisiting the drug scene it first surveyed three years...
...what should the Woodstock alumni association tell its offspring? Conversations with friends, especially those raising teenagers, suggest that adults with colorful pharmacological histories face unique problems in following the President's exhortation to "talk to your children about drugs." For such parents, family-style drug education often comes down to awkward choices like lying about their own past, feigning a remorse that they do not feel, or piously ordering their children to read lips rather than re- enact deeds. More subtle messages can get lost in the adolescent fog. One 17-year-old I know well seems to misinterpret...
...workplace, as if mid-level bureaucrats were society's prime offenders. Joining the politicians in the dock are those antidrug crusaders who have either squandered credibility with exaggerated scare talk or strained credulity with prissy pronouncements. The media are culpable as well, for sensationalized coverage that has often served to glamourize the menace they are decrying. Then there are the social-policy conservatives who purport to see no connection between the flagrant neglect of the economic problems of the underclass and the current crack epidemic. And sad to say, well-intentioned parents can also contribute to the hysteria by viewing...