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...often forced to accept adult responsibilities when they are far too immature to adjust. The pressures placed upon them are unnatural at their age. The resulting misbehavior—largely related to drug and alcohol abuse—of these kids is not remotely surprising.By “discovering?? children, Iris Burton knowingly halted their natural development and sent them down a path that was almost guaranteed to lead them astray. Baby-blue eyes and cutesy, high-pitched jokes are almost inevitably replaced with pocked skin, awkward limbs, and bad onscreen chemistry. Children grow up, and their star...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Meat Market: Child Stars and Their Agents | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...economics certainly deserve to be taken seriously, and markets are, of course, important. Yet its proponents seem to be infatuated with the idea that markets are the primary determining factor in our lives. They remind us of the old Marxists, who, in their sophomoric naivety kept “discovering?? underlying economic causes in everything. One must bear in mind that economics is quite a young discipline. Rewarding it too early might reduce its incentive to grow...

Author: By William E. Johnston and Sahil K. Mahtani | Title: Dismally Yours | 10/20/2006 | See Source »

...time for diplomacy, evidently, when Bush enraged the world community by pulling the U.S. out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Then there was March 2003, when Bush abruptly decided to invade Iraq, interrupting the United Nations weapons inspections, which were making steady progress toward discovering??as we now know—that Iraq had no WMD. Was that a good time for diplomacy? Amusingly enough, it wasn?...

Author: By Eoghan W. Stafford, WAR OF IDEAS | Title: Time to Stop Pissing Off the World | 1/24/2005 | See Source »

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