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Americans believe that police protection, fire protection, elementary and secondary education, and roads are public goods: The government has to provide them or we scream and yell. Before we can make any fundamental change in our health care system, we must acknowledge, decades behind the rest of the industrialized world, that health care is a public good...
...next time you see someone crossing a picket line, don't join in and yell "scabs!" The "scabs" are just trying to feed their families...
...Soviet Union slips from superpower status, some folks in the Pentagon must be dying to yell "We won!" GENERAL MERRILL MCPEAK came close. Visiting Moscow recently, the Air Force Chief of Staff addressed several hundred top Soviet air force officers, who were hoping to hear his thoughts on adjusting . to the postnuclear era. Instead, McPeak spent much of his time describing the brilliant performance of the U.S. Air Force in the gulf war before musing, "In war, defeat is a better instructor than victory." O.K., so far. But then he added, "This is probably a Russian saying...
From the youngest age in Little League, there is often a denigrating attitude toward girls and women. The worst insult a boy can yell at another boy in Little League is to call him a "wuss." If you combine the emphasis on winning at any cost with the negative attitude toward women, it is not at all surprising that approximately one-third of the sexual assaults on college campuses are by athletes...
...solidarity" or "community" during the Reagan era. In one moving passage, he describes the scene at a Wisconsin plant closing that marked the end for the Autoworkers local. Standing outside the plant, not knowing what to do, the members decide to scream. It was, said the papers later, a yell that could be heard in the Loop, 60 miles away. To Geoghegan, it was a scream Edvard Munch could have painted. One day that scream will be commemorated with a plaque, he writes, "and people will walk past it and remember. And they will think: This was the last scream...