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UNFORTUNATELY, a Church document decrying racism issued last week by the Vatican may be greeted by the same indifference on the part of the world's Catholics. A great tragedy of the modern Church is that Catholics tend to ignore entirely the words of the Pope without pausing to ask if he might say something worth listening to and thinking about...
That is the egalitarian theme of Vance Packard's latest venture in pop sociology, which is centered on slapdash but often tantalizing interviews with 30 of the nation's richest citizens (average net worth in 1987: $425 million). As the author presents them, these ultrarich tend to be banal in thought and sometimes defiantly plain Jane in tastes. "What's better than meat-loaf?" asks Texas developer Walter W. Caruth Jr., whose wife (despite his $600 million) does all the cooking. Surprisingly few of Packard's subjects try to live up to their imposing annual incomes. Leonard Shoen, the founder...
...this is truly the case, then why does it seem that Core professors, when forced to choose among students, tend to select the ones that are looking for Cores related to their concentrations? The answer is unclear...
...control still faces daunting practical and philosophical objections. Even some advocates think it is oversold. Police officers tend to equate guns with drugs; so long as the crack trade is not significantly reduced, they think, the inner-city shoot-outs will rage on and contribute to the impression (not entirely justified in light of slight overall declines in the national crime rate) of a rising tide of violent crime that has driven so many peaceful citizens to arm themselves. On the practical side, writing a definition of paramilitary weapons that would distinguish them from some types of semiautomatic hunting rifles...
...changes in their lives to suggest that there will inevitably be long-term trauma for all children." Experts point out that the study involved a small number of families and that there was no group of intact families to provide a statistical comparison. They note also that children tend to be depressed in adolescence whether they are from broken or intact families. Says psychologist Rex Forehand of the University of Georgia in Athens: "The answer on long-term effects...