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...handing down its bloodthirsty values to the young. The lock-'em-up approach to law enforcement exemplified by tough mandatory-sentencing laws adopted by the federal and most state governments over the past decade has not slowed the mayhem. In fact, some experts believe it may actually strengthen the violent code of behavior that prevails among many urban teenage males. "It is now a rite of passage that you must go to prison on at least a misdemeanor," says Jerome Miller of the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives in the Washington area. "What you see on the street...
...PRESIDENT TOM JOHNSON'S top priority has been to strengthen the network's overseas channel. Currently, CNN International is a mix of domestic CNN, Headline News (its news-radio-like companion service) and 3 1/2 hours a day of original fare aimed at the audience abroad. The channel broadcast most of the Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill hearings but presented only half-hour daily summations of the Smith rape trial. Many overseas viewers, though glued to CNN during major events, find its day-to-day programming parochial and its international coverage thin. Viewers in some parts of Asia have been turning...
...Project on the Psychology of Women and Girls is currently involved in several research projects intended to broaden and strengthen Gilligan's earlier findings...
...survival of hundreds of state-owned businesses. Figuring that Poland had to bear economic pain in any case, Walesa has generally supported moving to a free market as quickly as possible. The choice may have been an effort to garner the center-right's support for laws to strengthen presidential powers, including more say in naming the Cabinet...
...sons is magnified because they are vying for the throne, but the same issues of competition for parental love arise in an Arthur Miller play. In fact, the dysfunctional royal family shares more in common with today's families than with Medieval ones. These and other modern themes strengthen Lion in Winter, even though Haner does not belabor the play's contemporary relevance...