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...presence in the country of more than 4 million immigrants, mostly from Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco. More than half are unskilled laborers who work at construction and menial jobs long snubbed by French workers in prosperous times. As unemployment figures have soared, however, the French have come to resent the immigrants as job stealers. Adding to the resentment is the increased burden on education, and a popular feeling that crime rates among immigrants are high. Scrawled on brick walls throughout working-class regions outside Paris are the words ONE AND A HALF MILLION UNEMPLOYED IS ONE AND A HALF MILLION...
...wealth that people resent. What inflames their passions is the irresponsible use of wealth and the decadence of the jet-set hedonists...
...Hill's Acquire (price $15), which allows would-be conglomerate makers to wheel and deal their way to paper empires. In Profit and Loss ($15) players trade art, antiques, real estate and stocks. Capitalism itself is put to the test in Class Struggle ($12), in which players rep resent different classes in society and the object of the game is to win the revolution...
...little need for affirmative action. One may wish to dispute the truth or relevancy of Klitgaard's "overprediction" thesis, but there is surely nothing inherently racist about it. The only potentially offensive claim is Klitgaard's suggestion that some Blacks would do better at other schools. Blacks may rightly resent such "advice," but shouldn't one postpone final judgment until one has read the finished report in its entirety? Michael Crehan's recent article in the Independent provides a helpful corrective to much of the unrestrained hyperbole that has surrounded the Klitgaard controversy...
Many moderate Evangelicals are against Falwell too, but on different grounds. They resent the New Right's claim to speak for 45 million believers, especially on issues without specific biblical underpinnings, such as the Panama Canal or SALT II . They also think the suggestion that anyone who disagrees is sub-Christian is exactly what Evangelicals have long criticized in Protestant liberals. The Evangelical journal Christianity Today is disturbed that the New Right favors "prolife" and "profamily" causes but tends to ignore the Bible's teachings regarding justice, peace, and care for the poor...