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Besides being a textbook case of political co-optation, Bush's program highlights the importance of foreign affairs in elections. In 1988 "about 22% of voters cited foreign and defense policy as their primary concerns," says William Galston, who served as Walter Mondale's issues director. "Almost 80% of those people voted for Bush. It was they who provided Bush's margin of victory, and more will probably vote those concerns in '92 as Bush persuades them that the world is still an unstable place...
...provide. The University of Virginia English professor listed 4,600 items, ranging from the electron to the Emancipation Proclamation, that every educated adult should be able to identify. Now Hirsch is taking his program of core knowledge to the elementary-school level. In the first two of a six-textbook series for Grades 1 through 6, he boldly proposes the things tots ought to learn...
...what have Cameron and his crew of thousands come up with? A humongous, visionary parable that intermittently enthralls and ultimately disappoints. T2 is half of a terrific movie -- the wrong half. For a breathless first hour, the film zips along in a textbook display of plot planting and showmanship. But then it stumbles over its own ambitions before settling for a conventional climax with a long fuse. It's a truism, and a true one, that people remember the first lines of novels and the last scenes of movies. The best films accelerate, accumulate, pay off. But Cameron...
...Rourke, one of America's funniest writers and potentate of gonzo journalism, tried to find how the U.S. government works. His not-so-startling conclusion: it doesn't. Yet O'Rourke, an unabashed conservative with libertarian leanings, tells you why government is a flop in a way no civics textbook ever could. "I'm not sure I learned anything," he writes, "except that giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys...
...defense that the attorney is ill advised. His accounts of anti- Semitism in Europe and the Middle East are little more than a catalog borrowed from more capable historians. And his preening modesty belongs in a textbook of self-caricature: "Several years ago, Elie Wiesel flattered me by publicly stating that 'if there had been a few people like Alan Dershowitz during the 1930s and 1940s, the history of European Jewry might have been different.' Generous as the assessment is, it is an obvious exaggeration...