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...overwhelmingly favorable box-office response to films like Mr. Holland's Opus and Music of the Heart are any indication, the public supports music programs in our schools. While Bush and Gore have admirable goals for education reform, their agendas are incomplete. A complete education is one that enriches the mind and the spirit, and nothing can move and develop the spirit like music...
...year, but Bush's picture of Big Government Al didn't come into focus until Sept. 28. During a speech in Green Bay, Wis., Bush charged that Gore "has left the vital center of American politics...[and] cast his lot with the old Democratic Party," betraying the reform-minded moderates that Gore helped propel to power in 1992. "The Vice President was seated right behind Bill Clinton at the State of the Union when the President declared, 'The era of Big Government is over,'" Bush said. "Apparently, the message never took...He offers a big federal-spending program to nearly...
...order to stave off the eventual bankruptcy of Medicare and Social Security. He simply maintains that none of it will be necessary, as if wishing makes it so. "The campaign mechanics, with their poll tests and dial meters, don't encourage a robust, full-flowering debate on entitlement reform," says a Gore adviser who is frustrated with the candidate's lack of honesty on the issue. Gore the candidate is trying to get elected; Gore the public official knows the day of reckoning will come. And if it comes sooner than expected--if the economy craters and the surpluses...
...issues most pertinent to the candidates' platforms and at its worst the media has attacked Gore for his wooden stature and Bush for his intellectual prowess--or lack thereof. Thus far, even the presidential and the vice presidential debates have hammered Social Security, environmental preservation and tax reform rather than intimate details of conduct and character. The coverage certainly may not be as interesting as the stories of the Lewinsky era, but the media has conscientiously focused on the candidates' stance on issues which will effect American citizens and members of the international community rather than pry into Gore...
...next U.S. administration will find itself dealing with a China that remains formally committed to the path of economic reform but fearful of its social consequences. Of course, the stakes on both sides are already far too high to allow either to walk away from the relationship. But that doesn?t mean the marriage will be a happy...