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Kelly seems to be engaging in some sort of moral or ethical calculus here: he argues that Powell's achievements as the first Black person to be chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff outweigh the General's belief that bisexual, gay and lesbian people should be kept out of the military. I am not prepared to weigh the concerns of one oppressed group against the concerns of another...
...year into seven months. Their spring term bumped to a halt last week when local school authorities, glumly eyeing a $1.5 million shortfall in their $8.2 million budget, chose to declare summer vacation in March. All through a cold winter, Matt Johnston had trudged to a 7:30 a.m. calculus class he hoped would earn him advanced-placement credit at college next year. Though teachers rushed through their lesson plans as the premature vacation neared, Johnston still wonders whether he should have stayed in bed. "The ((nationwide calculus)) test is in May," he complains, "but no one is prepared...
Examples of this private individualism are everywhere, if we just look. Republicans should be applauding teachers like Jaime Escalante, the courageous East Los Angeles calculus instructor immortalized in the movie "Stand and Deliver." We must promote crime fighters like Ruben Greenberg, who united a city, empowered its people, and cleaned up the streets of Charleston, South Carolina...
Bond traders did no such nail biting. They bid up prices all week, in a mood of sunny optimism that Clinton's program really will reduce deficits. In the bond market's calculus, a lower deficit equals less government borrowing equals higher bond prices equals lower interest rates (which move in the opposite direction). For the moment, that became a self-fulfilling prophecy: the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds fell to barely more than 7%, the lowest since such bonds were first issued in 1977. By Friday those prospects had begun to cheer stock traders too. Monday -- who knows...
...Well, using my skills as a master of calculus, I figured out the curve of the bowl, the numbers of beans at the top, and after a quick computation I came pretty close to the correct answer," he said...