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...just can't ignore. In the meantime, Taiwan broke away from the illusion of fighting back, nearly stopped calling itself "Republic of China" in public and instead placed the focal point on its domestic development. And before long the economic performances of this "Little Dragon" were magnificent enough to wipe out its people's memory of the humiliating military defeat in 1949 by Mao's Red Army...
...school districts have at least some non-English-speaking children. One in six U.S. teachers has non-English speakers in the classroom. In Columbus Junction, Iowa, where a third of the students are the offspring of Hispanic pork packers, principal Becky Furlong fears that federal budget cuts will wipe out her bilingual kindergarten. Meanwhile, at the elementary school in De Queen, Arkansas, principal Cindy Hale has no plans to teach the Latino children of local poultry workers--now a quarter of her students--in Spanish. "The quicker they adapt to speaking English, the better off they are," she says...
Other "gross miscalculations" included Moscow's panicky fear of Jewish emigration; failure to realize that breaking diplomatic relations with Israel in 1973 would nearly wipe out Soviet influence in the Middle East; refusal to negotiate an early ban on antiballistic missiles and placement of SS-20 intermediate-range missiles in Europe; and a habit of "fixating" on U.S. military research...
Neither that record nor that rhetoric would seem to make him the natural standard bearer for the G.O.P. warriors who rode into Washington last fall promising to wipe out the very practices that Dole has spent the past 34 years mastering inside the Beltway. "There are so many now who grew up fighting a bully government," says Georgia Senator Paul Coverdell, who, though 56, is part of the newer generation in Congress because he was elected in 1992. "We had to overcome it." By contrast, Coverdell notes, Dole came of age when "government was seen more as a facilitator...
Meanwhile, substantial reductions in Medicare and NIH subsidies for teaching and research could wipe out much of the benefit from these economies so painfully achieved. "We look at cuts as unfunded mandates,'' says Mark Laret, deputy director of the Medical Center at ucla, which stands to lose some $16 million. "We are supposed to provide all the same services and do it with less. Medicare, to its credit, is the only payer that contributes anything to the cost of medical education, and that has got to change.'' UCLA has already talked with several local hmos about a premium...