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...would cost $15,000 to send a miscreant youth to boot camp for a year, STARS spends just $158 a child to provide music and dance lessons, sports and tutoring. When youths participate in such programs, says Wilbur Smith III, the city's mayor, they "start experiencing activities that reward them intellectually and emotionally, and that instills hope. You don't get that from punishment...
...flashy enough for TV; Don Fowler -- the savvy South Carolina committeeman appears unthreatening to turf-conscious White House officials; Mike Synar -- the defeated Oklahoma Congressman is aggressive, but can he raise money?; Kathleen Brown -- a proven fund raiser, but California Democrats don't want to reward her for losing their shot at the statehouse; Mack McLarty -- Clinton's kindergarten chum was too nice for the White House. Would the cutthroat D.N.C. be a better...
...says that the U.S. should not talk to Syria.The question is whether the U.S. should reward an intransigent -- forget terrorist -- Syria with the ultimate presidential plum. The laying on of hands is earned by those who, like King Hussein of Jordan, make peace, not those who only dangle it while playing dirty games on the side...
...Michael Huffington in California or Ross Perot in '92, piles of earthly treasure are proffered, with a straight face, as proof of one's ability to lead. But who can fault our lucre-crazed political culture when even the televangelists promise financial well-being, i.e., "prosperous ease," as the reward for supposedly Christian virtue...
...even these solutions are not enough to rejuvenate American politics. Office seekers must have the courage to run campaigns based on ideas and principles, and the electorate must reward those that do with a ticket to City Hall, the state capital, or Washington, D.C. No amount of constitutional tinkering will accomplish that...