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...opposed to playing Nintendo or watching Beavis and Butt-head on MTV, is a good thing. Viviane Lampach, a librarian at a Bronx high school in New York City, notes that her young patrons check out new paperback novels in this genre and never return them: "You hope to wean them from horror to something deeper and more meaningful." Roderick McGillis, a professor of English at the University of Calgary and author of a book on children's literature, takes a darker view: "What disturbs me is that we're developing in our culture, in our cities, a kind...
...prove that his revolution is for real, led by a "New Democrat" who has been chastened by the failures of his well-intentioned predecessors. He may speak of "investments" rather than spending and "contributions" rather than taxes, but more than his vocabulary must be new if he is to wean voters from their profound cynicism about what government can accomplish. The criticisms of his plan are predictable, but formidable...
...these reasons, the South Koreans with whom I talked are crossing their fingers that the death of communism in the North and unification with the South will be spread out over 10 or even 20 years. They are counting on their new partners in Beijing to wean Kim's successors away from Stalinism. As Professor Ahn Byung Joon of Yonsei University in Seoul put it, "The only course is to persuade North Korea to adopt the Chinese model of economic reform and an open-door policy toward the rest of the world...
...assessment marked the end of the era of Mau-Mauing Westerners into a chic guilt. The World Bank, the IMF and the so-called donor countries made it clear they wanted to wean African countries from thinking of aid as a permanent fact of life. Part of the trend, especially in West Africa, has been to move African executives trained at the World Bank into key decision-making posts within national governments. The Ivory Coast's Prime Minister, Alassane Ouattara, for example, worked for the IMF for nearly two decades before taking a post at home...
...modern-day version of the WPA. In the wake of the Los Angeles riots, bipartisan momentum seems to be building behind Housing Secretary Jack Kemp's "empowerment" approach. By offering tax breaks to entrepreneurs investing in 50 inner-city "enterprise zones," Kemp hopes to generate new jobs and wean welfare recipients off the dole. That trickle-down solution seems problematic: it will take more than fiscal lures to bring major investment into rubble-strewn areas like South Central L.A., downtown Detroit and the South Bronx...