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...techniques to * reflect the fact that many people take their cues from television talk shows, he had actually (and typically) studied the problem of changing perceptions quite rigorously. A treatise Clinton has found particularly useful in this regard is Reich's book The Power of Public Ideas. The central tenet of Reich's argument is contained in two sentences: "The core responsibility of those who deal in public policy . . . is not simply to discover as objectively as possible what people want for themselves . . . It is also to provide the public with alternative visions of what is desirable and possible...
...addition to the basic tenet of eurocentrism inherent in his argument, Choi manipulates statistics to support his argument that Asians are a "model minority." For example, he explains that "many Black and Hispanic communities continue to suffer from low incomes, crime-ridden neighborhoods, broken homes," citing the Black, Hispanic and white poverty rates. He carefully omits the Asian poverty rate, thereby implying that Asians do not experience poverty at a significant rate...
...central tenet is retiring the old moldboard plow, which laid the earth open to wind and water erosion. Instead farmers leave residue from the previous year's crops in place to hold soil and moisture, then scratch or chisel in seeds, which sprout through the decomposing residue. Crop rotation is used to break insect cycles. Weeds are targeted, controlled by new herbicides that quickly break down and vanish. In this rare and happy story that emerges from centuries of anguished agriculture practices and policies, there is the touch of God's hand soothing the earth and nudging it back...
Schools, labor unions and other institutions that once educated young people about voting have also fallen down on the job. In a 1989 survey of 1,006 youths by People for the American Way, only 12% rated voting as a basic tenet of good citizenship. "There's a whole generation of people growing up who should be our future leaders but who are very disaffected, and that's scary," says Cohn...
...sense. In "Integrating the American Mind," he says "Allan Bloom is right to ask about effect of higher education on our kids' moral development, even though that's probably the only thing he is right about." In fact, this sentiment is at the core of the central programmatic tenet of Loose Canons--that we must create an educational system that fosters "a civic culture that respects both differences and commonalities." This will be a system "that seeks to comprehend the diversity of human culture" since (and this is the Gates mantra) "[t]here is no tolerance without respect...