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...this kind of ignorance that furthers the division between society's governing elite and the citizens it seeks to serve. When the American education system produces geographical--and political and scientific--illiterates, elected officials become much less accountable to their constituents and much more liable to take reckless foreign policy stances. While President Reagan and his administration were trading arms for hostages in Iran, most Americans were unable to locate Iran...
Horrible deeds done by good people prompt the most difficult questions. How did efforts to get the car fixed spiral into robbery and death, bad decisions made at every turn? Nothing about Cooney or his friends suggested they were capable of reckless, murderous behavior. So far, drinking and drugs do not appear to be a factor. Three of the boys came from working-class families who struggled to pay the $3,225 tuition at a strict private school where Catholic, not prep, is the defining sensibility. Cooney was the stepson of a police officer; Katanic's widowed mother...
...leaks. "The allegation is categorically, simply, flatly not true," he told TIME. Nevertheless, officials on Capitol Hill point to further indiscretions. One states that Sullivan has repeatedly used secret material on arms control in letters written for Helms and other Senators. "He's got a reckless disregard for the proper handling of classified information," says the official. Sullivan says there is no truth to these allegations...
...came out with reckless abandon," freshman Sue Carls said. "Then, we panicked a little. The stick check really fired...
Televangelist Robertson reached in another direction, toward alienated social conservatives who yearn for a counterrevolution against "secular humanism." His minions had enough zeal and savvy to take over local party cells in some regions where flaccid G.O.P. regulars slept. But Robertson proved to be so reckless and ineffective a campaigner that his message was never tested amid a blizzard of controversy. Among registered Republicans surveyed last week by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, 58% had a generally unfavorable impression of Robertson...