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Even so, job training has a bad reputation among conservatives, who see it as a boondoggle for the trainers that does little to improve the earning potential of the trainees. Better to subsidize them in low-skill jobs, the argument goes, like ringing registers at 7-Eleven, where they can get on-the- job experience in regular working habits that will help them move up. (However, labor unions complain that when government pays private employers to hire from the welfare roles, it puts nonwelfare job applicants at a disadvantage...
...cloning and America's job crisis. Her most recent big assignment was especially apt: a cover story on the new generation of leaders at the Big Three Detroit automakers. And she made it all look easy. Says assistant managing editor Christopher Porterfield: "She has not only handled everything with skill and aplomb, but has emerged unruffled and serenely smiling...
David L. Bosco's editorial "Looking Beyond the Scorecard" makes one wonder if the author attended the Mansfield-Sullivan debate on which his article was based. He attempts to divorce debating skill from argumentation, claiming that, despite "Sullivan's obvious superiority in debate," Mansfield's points were at least equally sound. Furthermore, he chastises Harvard students for their "shallow" reaction to the event, since Sullivan was deemed the victor more for style than for substance...
Because of Mansfield's surprisingly poor debating skill, his arguments were not made effectively and in fact were barely made at all. In the face of such weak opposition, Sullivan could not help but win the debate easily. He was far more persuasive because his arguments were clear whereas Mansfield's were not. Bosco's attempt to separate debate skill from arguments misses the point that the former can be a necessary part of the latter; Bosco cannot fault Harvard students for failing to appreciate arguments Mansfield never really made in the hour-long debate...
...large disparity in debating skill and Sandel's constant pestering combined to cloud Mansfield's arguments. The debate was far more complex than most in attendance seemed to appreciate...