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...idea behind Jahncke’s bid for the nation’s second highest post took root last year, but the sentiment behind it is decades...
...months, bracelets, earrings and other typewriter trinkets geared toward women have become hot sellers. "They blew out of our store over Christmas," says Carol Tantau, owner of the Just Tantau boutique in Venice, Calif. Online, these unusual pieces can be found at UncommonGoods.com or StrokeOfArt.com Or you can root around in your parents' garage and try tapping them out yourself. --By Jeffrey Ressner
...style capitalism—hindered, as it is, by corruption and an arbitrary legal system—isn’t exactly the stuff of Milton Friedman and Ec 10. As China’s entrepreneurial middle class grows, Solidarity-type labor movements emerge, and Christianity increasingly takes root, we can expect the regime to bully, harass, torture and murder to resist political reform. If the past is indicative, it will do virtually anything to maintain its dictatorial rule over one-sixth of the earth’s population...
...Does Kindergarten Need Cops?" sheds much needed light on violence and lack of discipline among even the youngest American schoolchildren [Dec. 15]. But you only vaguely addressed the true root of the trouble: bad parenting. Sure, violent video games, television and movies are part of the problem, but no one seems to want to say out loud that parents are ultimately at fault for raising these disruptive, violent children. Negligent parents and an ever growing number of unstable families have bred an entire generation of children who live without discipline and receive no adult guidance. If children are being raised...
...neutrals may wax poetic about America's sins, but they do not hate us. The problem is not emotion, but calculation. At root, it is a matter of interests. Interests diverge. No use wailing about it. The grand alliances are dead. With a few trusted friends, America must carry on alone...