Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book, Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man (Morrow; 662 pages; $27.50), we meet men on the edge and over the edge: porn stars, hyperfanatical sports fans, wife beaters, gang bangers, a battle-weary parade of America's veritable down-and-outers. This is masculinity in crisis, all right, and Faludi, the author of Backlash, a 1991 best-selling study of feminism, wants to know why. Initially, she writes, her question was, "Why are so many men so disturbed by the prospect of women's independence?" But in the end, she says, what compelled her was why men--like...
...China. But soon after the Chinese negotiators arrive in the capital, House majority whip TOM DELAY is planning to wave a red flag, introducing a pro-Taiwan arms resolution on the House floor. Other G.O.P. leaders, including Senate majority leader TRENT LOTT, have also signaled that politics is not right for a China vote this year. And though that may tempt the Administration to back off WTO again, the White House will most likely stay the course. Clinton does not want to send the Chinese home with another nasty surprise...
...many trained people as will be needed, and will enough of those technically skilled graduates come from poor and minority groups to make IT the great equalizer between economic haves and have-nots foreseen by some would-be prophets? At best, there is a long way to go. Right now, says Varian, "educational institutions are moving in fits and starts" to integrate computers into classroom work. Romer asserts that education is "probably the worst laggard in coming up with better ways to do things," and it will have to change because the skills of the workforce can no longer...
...into the scary world of e-commerce, they're all interested in the future of your wallet. Says Dan Burke, senior analyst at Gomez Advisors, a rater of e-commerce sites: "We're just getting to the really interesting part, where we see who's doing it right and who's doing it wrong...
...Scholastic Assessment Test is like the riddle of the Sphinx, an ordeal by questions that can make further progress on the road of life very iffy. Right answers put you on your way to Prestige U. The wrong ones could give you a lifelong personal stake in the debate over the minimum wage. In The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 406 pages; $27), Nicholas Lemann describes the rise to power of the SAT and the keepers of its flame at the Educational Testing Service. Lemann is especially good at describing the "quiet coup...