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...American public school, is that all too commonly it fails to educate. By almost every measure, the nation's schools are mired in mediocrity -- and most Americans know it. Whether it is an inner- city high school with as many security checkpoints as a Third World airport, or a suburban middle school where only "geeks" bother to do their homework, the school too often has become a place in which to serve time rather than to learn. The results are grimly apparent: clerks at fast-food restaurants who need computerized cash registers to show them how to make change; Americans...
...that's what the pols tell us when the poor start clamoring for their welfare checks. But conditions in the low-wage end of the work force are beginning to look like what Friedrich Engels found in 19th century Manchester and described as immiserization. Within 10 miles of my suburban home, for example, there is a factory where (until they got a union contract a year ago) the workers slept in their cars and bathed in the restroom -- because, at the minimum wage, housing was not an option. A few miles in the other direction, Salvadoran refugees...
Some of the best-known exemplars of the new tropical taste are hidden away in suburban shopping strips. At Chef Allen's in North Miami Beach, Allen Susser's most popular dishes include rock-shrimp hash topped by a mustardy sabayon sauce, followed perhaps by seared citrus-crusted yellowfin tuna with a macedoine of papaya, mango and yellow pepper. At Mark's Place, North Miami diners line up early for Mark Militello's signature dish, curry fried oysters nestled on a tamarind-banana salsa and West Indian bread, all topped with an orange sour cream. "It's a long...
Some folks just can't get along. There, in a grocery store in suburban Portland, Ore., was cashier Tom Morgan, more or less minding his own business. And there also was cashier Randy Maresh, who seemed to delight in tormenting Morgan. At length Morgan got fed up, hired a lawyer and sued Maresh for $100,000 in damages. The complaint: Maresh "willfully and maliciously inflicted severe mental stress and humiliation . . . by continually, intentionally and repeatedly passing gas directed at the plaintiff." Not only that: Maresh would "hold it and walk funny to get to me" before expressing himself...
...absurdity of all this was highlighted Tuesday night when a White House aide announced that the pool assigned to cover Bush's visit to Gorbachev's suburban residence was not expected to provide any coverage. "You'll just go up there and hang out," the aide advised...