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American families deserve the choice to attend private schools. If public schools can't compete, then we should leave them behind to rot. Our commitment should be to educate our children as effectively as possible, not to preserve the jobs of inefficient public school bureaucrats...

Author: By Mark J. Sneider, | Title: Even the Russians Do It | 10/21/1992 | See Source »

From private fibs to public whoppers, rampant lying is a spreading dry rot in the American body politic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

More political messages are provided in "Youth Against Fascism," an all out attack on the Republican adminstration. "I believe Anita Hill/The judge will rot in hell," Moore yells. His evaluation of Bush's re-election prospects? "Yeah, the President sucks/His shit is out of luck...

Author: By Steven V. Mazie, | Title: SONIC ATTACK | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...intervene on behalf of the Kosovars lest their own Albanians secede. Either outcome could tempt the Greeks to intervene militarily. They are already destabilizing the Macedonian government by choking off its oil imports, idling tractors and trucks during the crucial harvest period and leaving grapes and apples to rot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ever Greater Serbia | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

...regime itself is in an advanced stage of dry rot. Imagine the Soviet Union if Stalin were still alive and in charge at age 112: that is North Korea, which outsiders have mockingly dubbed "the world's last socialist theme park." It has had no Khrushchev, not even a Brezhnev, never mind a Gorbachev. It has only its founding dictator, Kim Il Sung, who is 80 and failing. "The Great Leader" has designated his son, "the Dear Leader," heir to the throne. But a succession struggle may already have begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad: The Curse of the Answered Prayer | 9/14/1992 | See Source »

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