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...heating up, and education experts felt that American schoolchildren needed to work harder to compete. The result: a cottage industry of organized after-school pursuits--lessons and tutors and clubs and teams--to baby-sit and enrich. Then, thanks to overzealous parents, things got out of hand, says William Doherty, a University of Minnesota professor of marriage and family therapy. "Adult notions of hypercompetition and overscheduling have created a culture of parenting that's more akin to product development, and it's robbing families of time together," he theorizes, adding, "Frantic families equal fragile families...
...battle that we're in is a spiritual battle. Satan wants to destroy this nation, he wants to destroy us as a nation, and he wants to destroy us as a Christian army." LIEUT. GENERAL WILLIAM BOYKIN, new Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, characterizing the war on terrorism as a religious battle, in remarks to a church in June that drew fire after being reported last week, prompting Boykin to apologize...
...membership. Today a membership costs about $22,500. In the past three years nearly 200 of Japan's 2,400 golf courses have declared bankruptcy, according to Teikoku Databank, a credit-research agency. "Goldman is buying these distressed properties at a great discount," says Joel Gomberg, an analyst at William Blair & Co. "There's great value potential here; it's a savvy move." Among Accordia's tactics to lure people to the game--which many Japanese have played within strict guidelines--loosening dress codes and letting players drive golf carts on the grass...
...live is to kill because you don't have to worry about anybody who's dead." William Doyle, former sergeant in the U.S. Army's ?lite "Tiger Force," which, according to a Toledo Blade investigation, killed more than 100 civilians in a seven-month Vietnam War rampage...
That particular flurry died down, but another rash of right-wing hypocrisy hit this year, first with the admission of William J. Bennett, Republican guru and author of such titles as The Book of Virtues and The Death of Outrage, that he had become addicted to gambling. Then came the double disgrace of Rush Limbaugh, who within two weeks was fired from his job as a football commentator because of racially insensitive comments (this is actually one of his more consistent moments), then announced that he was addicted to painkillers. This from a prince of American political culture, who once...