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...social- services agency, admits that his staff should have got to the Keystone kids months ago. And he agrees with Kotlowitz: "The President doesn't understand what the conditions are in the inner cities. In many respects children in the U.S. are in worse shape than children in Third World countries." His voice betrays commitment and real anguish; all that is missing is hope...
...good working definition of "rubbish," you might have just stumbled upon it. What is at stake for the Council is not a deep-seated concern for the physical welfare of students. If that were the case, the Peace Corps, which sends graduates to the heart of the Third World, or Teach for America, which brings students into inner city ghettos, would incur similar faculty scrutiny...
...just as the Cold War ended, so too did the Publication War: burdened by crippling financial planning and ruthless party chairmen, the Crimson crumbled and has been content to print articles about security guards which no one understands. And, just as every Third World nation is trying to build an atomic bomb out of Sterno and radon testers, so too is there a proliferation of pranking on campus. These events are not unrelated...
...intended mostly as a signal to Pyongyang to stop procrastinating. But it also reflects long-brewing unease among Pentagon officials about how U.N. forces in the South would fare against a North Korean blitzkrieg. With 1.1 million regular troops -- the world's fifth-largest army -- 550,000 reservists and 100,000 commandos, North Korea has more than one-third of its population under arms. About 70% of active-duty forces are stationed within 60 miles from the Demilitarized Zone, and the DMZ is only 35 miles from Seoul, a rich target with its 11 million people and heavy concentration...
...killings and a permanent underclass and the homeless? I'm 46 years old, and I remember when there were no homeless people. I remember when my parents took me to Mexico and I was appalled that there were beggars and people on mats in the street. This was a Third World phenomenon. Now officials in my department say to me, "Oh, you'll get used to it." I had one conversation with officials from several Cabinet departments, who, when I described the President's commitment to the homeless, said, "Oh, he comes from Arkansas; it's a small state. After...