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...legislation would make terrorist acts within the U. S. a federal offense. Hyde's bill would also toughen visa and asylum procedures. He said the bill was so urgent his committee would try to send it to the full House as soon as possible. Rep. Charles Schumer, the chief sponsor of Clinton's bill, expects that "this bill will move like lightning through Congress...
...imposing a flat tax. The intellectual cheerleaders for the flat tax are Hall and Rabushka, both economists at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Their writings inspired the flat tax for which Jerry Brown won a flurry of attention during the 1992 Democratic primaries. Another disciple is House majority leader Armey, sponsor of the leading flat-tax plan now before Congress...
These are six-and seven-year-olds, I admit. They're not yet expected to be polite, gracious members of society. But when I chatted with my sponsor, who has taught first grade for 25 years, she said that 10 and 15 years ago, she didn't have to teach kids how to blow their noses. She didn't have to remind kids as much to wash their hands. They learned these social skills where they should learn them--from their parents, at home...
What will these kids be like as adults? Somewhere along the way they'll have to pick up a modicum of social skills, or they'll be laughed at or ostracized. But what if they don't have a good teacher, like my sponsor, who fills in the gaps? She said that she now consciously thinks about teaching "politeness lessons," something that didn't cross her mind a decade...
...true that teachers can make a difference--one afternoon, my sponsor took her kids on a community field trip to the public library. But teachers can only do so much. For children to succeed in school and in life, parents must pay attention to their kids at home. It does not matter if a child grows up with one parent or two, with a mother who works or doesn...