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Despite the expected increase in property taxes, the city remains $8 million below its levy limit established by Proposition 2 1/2. Because of this excess levying capacity, which allows the city to respond to "unforeseen expenditures" and decreased local aid, city administrators do not expect the city to show major effects from the decreasing state aid until next year...
...nerves began building almost two weeks ago, when Gorbachev gave the Landsbergis government three days to respond to a declaration from the Congress of People's Deputies stating that the republic's secession on March 11 had been illegal. Landsbergis replied that the Congress's resolution was "without legal foundation" and a violation of Lithuania's internal affairs...
...several years, educators and parents have been concerned that the proliferation of war toys and games is making children more aggressive and desensitizing them to violence. Educators Nancy Carlsson-Paige and Diane Levin explore that troubling issue in their new book Who's Calling the Shots?: How to Respond Effectively to Children's Fascination with War Play and War Toys (New Society Publishers; $12.95). According to Carlsson-Paige and Levin, the damage being done is even worse than just making kids want to fight. TV- based war toys, say the authors, can destroy a child's creativity by luring...
Second, they provide a forum for artistic debate. This sounds bloated and silly, but an intelligent, experienced critic, even a peer, can sometimes give you a lot of insight into a particular branch of the arts. If more people responded to reviews (or if more reviews were stimulating enough to respond to), some lively debates could be generated...
...Sociology, they study systems of domination and propaganda. When graduate students choose not to teach in Sociology, they respond by trying to dominate and propagandize--not by making it more attractive for their graduate students to teach in Sociology, but less attractive outside of Sociology...