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Inner cities, poor rural areas and apparently even suburbs--It's no longer a question of students graduating high school with 5th-grade reading levels. Many young people can't even read at all. The author and teacher Jonathan Kozol has said that more than 25 million Americans are illiterate. If people are unable to read, our entire democracy is in danger...
...down on refuseniks, citizens who have asked to be allowed to emigrate but have been refused. Last Monday a group of about 20 refuseniks, mostly Soviet Jews, gathered on Arbat Street, a historic Moscow thoroughfare recently renovated into a pedestrian mall. They stood for 90 minutes with signs that read FREE YOSIF BEGUN and LET US GO TO ISRAEL. Begun, who in 1983 was sentenced to twelve years of prison and exile for publishing anti-Soviet literature, has recently been placed under "strict regime," meaning that his food rations have been reduced and his mail and visiting privileges curtailed...
...though the precedent is probably more important than the material, rumored to be colorful but unrevealing. Reagan personally selected what he wanted the commission to see from his handwritten files and had it typed up. A ! White House courier brought the pages and sat primly by while the investigators read the notes, then returned them to the courier. Gentlemen...
that I actually read and investigate Prabhupada...
Prabhupada's "As It Is" translation of the Bhagavad Gita is central to the American Vaishnava movement. It was reading this book that led Dan Coggins, currently a member of the Boston temple, to convert. A Sanskrit translation of the Ghita he looked at didn't inspire him, but, three years ago, when he read Prabhupada's version, he was transfixed. "It was the most potent form of religion I could find...