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There is no reason to expect that is different at Harvard. One reason frats became such centers in the '80s was the rise of the drinking age, which forced alcohol-soaked parties to "private" institutions. It happened everywhere else, and it happened at Harvard. (It happens here at Harvard: The recent surge in nationally affiliated frats on campus is more of the same.) And as long as the drinking age stays high and the public continues to pressure bastions of (white) male privilege, so will the rush to the clubs...
...Kosovo Albanians started agitating for the status of a republic. The Serbs feared that the next step would be secession, then union with Albania, and many fled. In the late '80s Milosevic fanned the patriotic paranoia of the remaining Serbs there and put the province under direct and extremely repressive rule from Belgrade...
...film starring Gig Young and Jane Fonda. The phenomenon of the endurance dance is grimly compelling in itself: couples shuffling around the clock for months, withstanding exhaustion, injury and humiliation in pursuit of the cash prize for the last pair standing. But the script evokes the '80s as well as the '30s and suggests the sick symbiosis, then and now, between would-be stars grabbing at a grimy corner of show business and the prurient, prying public come to watch...
Bartley's main error is his narrow focus on a few pet theories and prescriptions and the inevitable special pleading this entails. "The moral of the Seven Fat Years is that economic growth counts," he writes. But the rising tide of '80s-style growth failed to lift all boats as advertised: the rich got bigger yachts, the middle class foundered, and many of the poor went under. The task for the 1990s will be to move beyond the excesses and inequities of the debt decade rather than strive to return to a Golden Age that never existed...
Finally, the 1988 reforms are based on a workfare approach -- education, training, job search -- that produced only modest improvements in employment and earnings when tried by various states during the '80s. The chances of large-scale gains are especially dim at a time when more than 7% of all U.S. workers are jobless. "If you are going to have a workfare program in a slack economy, the whole program will collapse," says William Julius Wilson, a sociologist at the University of Chicago and an expert on poverty. "People will get training for employment, but if there aren't jobs...