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...would be available only to students ages 8 to 14, because "that is the age when youngsters start to crystallize their values," says my father. Though he is a Democrat, his idea sounds a little like the one uttered years ago by Republican Newt Gingrich. Gingrich proposed bringing back state-run orphanages to rescue at-risk children from unfit mothers. My dad admits the similarity between his idea and Newt's and doesn't apologize for it. "If it takes a fortress to develop youngsters into positive, confident, thinking young men and women, then why not?" he asks...
...John has been continually evaluated, not by psychiatrists hired by his parents but by doctors at St. Elizabeths, a state-run hospital," Levine said. "The medical reports are consistent in their assessment of his condition...
Things have since changed. India is now the world's largest democracy and home to one of the most well-educated work forces in the world. The country has made great strides from the inefficient and corrupt state-run economy of the 1970s, jumping headfirst into the information technology age. Long before President Clinton showed interest, Bill Gates of Microsoft and Scott McNealy of Sun Microsystems were already in India, building plants and using the wealth of labor to help fuel their companies. New policies of privatization, tax reduction and the lowering of staggering tariffs on foreign companies has allowed...
...possibly can," Gore told his staff. "These small steps are nice, but that's what we've been doing for the past 6 1/2 years." Aides laid 13 policy options before him in a commuter terminal at Boston's Logan International Airport--everything from sweeping, state-run health care to the most modest increments. Gore checked off five options. Then it suddenly occurred to him what he wanted to do: cover children and their families. "Children are the most important thing here," he said. "That's what people want...
Meanwhile, the opposition-run areas complain that the state-run oil company refuses to give them any fuel at all. And Belgrade is saying it has solved the heating problem in the rest of the country by making deals with Slovakia and Iraq, exchanging Serbian copper, food and medicine for Slovak electricity and Saddam Hussein's oil. In the end, it seems that the people most likely to shiver this winter are the ones who voted against Milosevic...