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HARVARD cannot bring ROTC back as a panacea for poverty-stricken students. The group is a vocation that should draw members based on interest in military leadership, not bribe people because of their destitution...
Some politicians and parents see choice as a panacea for the ills of public education, but most educators view it as only one of many necessary tools. "Choice is a nice initiative, but it's not the answer," says California's superintendent of public instruction, Bill Honig. "It's the day-to-day support for reform that is important to improving education." And improving education, as President Bush well knows, will cost money...
...This has got me into a great deal of conflict with the civil rights establishment, but I hold that affirmative action is not a universal panacea. It's a tool, and no area indicates that more than sports. The N.B.A., for example, is 75% black, and there was no affirmative action involved in it. But if you had an affirmative-action plan in the N.B.A. based on society at large, you'd have 10% black players and 90% white players. As a tool, affirmative action would be counterproductive. The front-office situation in baseball, in sports in general...
Many physicians defend the use of Ritalin, citing studies indicating that the drug is generally safe and is effective in about 80% of cases of hyperactive children. Adverse effects are usually limited to temporary appetite loss and insomnia. "Ritalin is not a panacea," says researcher Howard Abikoff of the Long Island Jewish Medical Center, "but without medication we'd be up against the wall...
...such legislation would not be a panacea, Kevin Cathcart, an attorney with the Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders in Boston, said in an interview. More than half of all federal judges on the bench today were appointed by Ronald Reagan, not exactly a friend to gays and lesbians over the past eight years...