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...effects of the mass culture on their children. They are rightly aroused by grade school curriculums that present homosexuality as just another life-style choice. They know instinctively that single parenthood, for all the heroism it summons from women, is the surest path to childhood poverty. They want to rebuild "family values" -- but they refuse to see the rebuilding as an act of religious war. And when they hear their concerns transmuted into appeals to intolerance, they tune...
They tuned out in November, and not just because the economy was bad. Reagan Democrats and suburban Republicans found it hard to vote for the party of Houston. The basic challenge for conservatism as it tries to rebuild is recognizing that its weakness is not what it is for -- most Americans are generally for the same things -- but refusing to define what it is against. Traditional values, not a "Christian nation." Racial color blindness, not racial intolerance. A city on a hill, not an armed camp. Conservatism, not reaction...
...problems, though, New York still has a superb infrastructure for housing, transporting and employing large numbers of people. "It's far easier to fix New York," says Berger, "than to rebuild it in Des Moines." More important, cities such as New York and Tokyo will never lose their role as % marketplaces of ideas. Even as electronic communications increasingly link people over long distances, they still crave face-to-face encounters...
Many Somalis think poorly of the U.N. for what they consider to be mishandling of earlier relief and peacekeeping efforts and kowtowing to the warlords. So far, the U.S. stands tall, but Somalis expect that the Americans will not only help feed the hungry but also rebuild the economy and infrastructure -- and that Washington has so far refused...
...Somalia, U.S. officials fear their troops could be cast into the same untenable position. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali has been leading a campaign to turn the humanitarian mission into a more problematic operation to rebuild the Somali nation. Step 1 is disarming a populace so heavily armed that no one can even begin to figure the size of the arsenal. But the Bush Administration remains unwilling to take on a task that could put U.S. troops in the middle, making the Marines the target of anyone who refuses to give...