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...course, but transparency is their common denominator. They seek to gratify the public's desires and quiet its fears. Conveniently forgotten is the real world's complexity and an appreciation for the long-term consequences of their feel-good prescriptions. Consider, for example, the contract's implicit welfare paradigm: We're against children having children, so unwed teen mothers will be denied welfare and their kids can live in orphanages -- a costlier remedy than the current (and admittedly flawed) system...
...orphanage. "Foster care cannot handle adolescent kids," maintains Murphy. "What residential care provides is consistency." Consistency is a function of duration-of-stay, however, and proponents await a commission report due out at the end of this month to suggest whether Illinois may actually defy the family-first paradigm and invest more in institutions that do what orphanages once did: hold on to children for five, 10, even 15 years...
...outdated model of strident minority activism may have worked in the '60s for Blacks and other groups, but it won't work today for Asian-Americans. The separatist paradigm, by stressing difference and discrimination, simply alienates our mainstream (white) allies and creates division within our ranks...
...Thin Untrue Books: Under this heading I would group all hard-cover fiction under 120 pages. Robert James Waller's The Bridges of Madison County is the paradigm for books of this sort. All Thin Untrue books must be handsomely bound, like something an immaculately groomed man would tote in the hand not clutching his leather attache. If these books were to be written in, and translated from, Albanian by Albania's premier husband-and-wife writer-translator team, so much the better...
Which brings us to the National Football League, the paradigm of labor peace and rationality. The owners have a team salary cap. The players have free agency. "The system has worked well for players," says union executive director Gene Upshaw, who negotiated the deal. "We want the same thing as other entertainers. We want the same thing as Bruce Springsteen, Madonna and Bill Cosby, the right to sell our talent to the highest bidder...