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...What may not be obvious, though, is how the lack of moral integrity today stems from an intellectual failure, the epistemological humility that refuses to hold anything as certain. Greene's noted ambiguity and his writing of plays like Yes and No are just two examples. The thinker Ayn Rand held that philosophy is an integrated total. If one finds a person negating what is good in morality, one will always find him at a deeper level negating knowledge and reason. Greene makes this view concrete...
Allister Sparks is South Africa's Walter Lippmann: knowing, patrician and a mite holier than thou. Like Lippmann, he is both chronicler and confidant of the alite. He was the editor of the Rand Daily Mail, a crusading antiapartheid newspaper, and wrote The Mind of South Africa, a tour-de-force history of apartheid, published in 1990. In Tomorrow Is Another Country (Hill and Wang; 254 pages; $22), which Sparks calls a sequel to that book, he has crafted a narrative of the momentous events of the past decade that culminated in the election of Nelson Mandela as the first...
Contrary to conventional school-bashing, there's evidence that better educated parents, smaller families and upgraded programs for poor and immigrant children are yielding significant improvement in test scores, according to a study released today by the prestigious, California-based Rand Institute. "If you listen to the national debate, you would believe that families and schools are failing and government programs and policies don't work," said David W. Grissmer, who led research based on students ages 13 and 17 who took the National Assessment of Educational Progress tests between 1970 and 1990. (Average math and reading scores increased...
...people stop in at House of Sarah Books to see Emily, the warm grey cat, as much as they come in to buy books, according to salesperson Everett B. Rand...
...case, as former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger noted, the changing of the guard "adds uncertainty at precisely the time we don't need it." Jong Il plainly will find some rough going in acquiring his father's stature. Noted Norman Levin, a senior analyst at Rand Corp. in California: "If Kim Il Sung said white is black, he could make it stick. No one now has that sort of authority...