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Just 25 years ago, such stark legal reasoning was virtually unknown in modern American jurisprudence. Punishment was meted out because of the nature of the crime, devoid of any reference to the social identity of the victim. But since then, compassion and political calculation have combined to transform crime victims and their advocates into a potent lobbying force...
...Belridge school is an extreme case of what might be called computer failure, but it is not unique. More than a decade has passed since microcomputers began appearing in large numbers in U.S. schools, accompanied by heady predictions that the new technology would soon transform education just as society had been transformed by the automobile. But the problems that beset the U.S. school system 10 years ago -- rising illiteracy, declining math skills, dwindling comprehension -- still bedevil it today. There is a growing sense among educators and parents that as an educational cure-all, the computer has fizzled...
...Kundera character does display some disarming modesty. He admits that novels, of whatever sort, are not in much demand except as fodder: "The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs, or cartoons." Therefore, "if a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold." The person to whom he is talking responds, "When I hear you, I just hope...
...moved, during the past couple of years, to embrace them? Roger Kimball, conservative author of Tenured Radicals, a book harshly critical of the trend, blames the coming of age of the academic generation shaped by the struggles of the '60s. Its members, he says, vowed back then to transform campuses into engines of ongoing social change; now they are in a position to impose their will. A much less conspiratorial interpretation is that American schools and colleges are dealing with a demographic change that will take another couple of decades to grip society as a whole -- the shift, because...
Hussein's transfer of power would have all sorts of redeeming effects. But establishing democratic government would accomplish one thing above all: it would transform Jordan into a Palestinian state. New Palestine (or whatever it got called) would be what Palestinians, and the King, have been struggling to create for two generations. Their efforts have focused on the West Bank and Gaza, unlikely places now for a Palestinian state, rather than Jordan. But the new government would reflect Jordan's bottom line: a large Palestinian majority in a nation where Palestinians control 75% of the wealth...