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...problem Kushner has with plays driven by single ideas—a kind of expository theater—is that they don’t get us anywhere. The playwright first hits upon some important idea, then “turns it into a club and beats you over the head with...
...unusual for Americans who visit North Vietnam to be taken to see Vietnamese military installations, and when they do they are always required to wear a helmet like the kind I have been given to wear during the air raids. I am driven to the site of the antiaircraft installation, somewhere on the outskirts of the city. There is a group of about a dozen young Vietnamese soldiers in uniform who greet me. There is also a horde of photographers and journalists--many more than I have seen all in one place in Hanoi. (I later learn some of them...
President Bush is right. Social Security needs to be saved, but not because of any major internal problems. Rather, this vital and proven governmental program is jeopardized by the ideologically-driven changes Bush wants to make to it. Social Security must be saved from the President and others, who would dismantle a proven and successful program because they reflexively oppose any increased role of government in our lives. Bush’s pitch sounds convincing, but partially privatizing Social Security is the first step towards phasing it out. The promise of a comfortable and secure retirement guaranteed by a government...
Bush’s firm desire to privatize Social Security is driven by ideology, not reality. This same ideology prompted Republican presidential candidates Alf Landon to describe Social Security as “a cruel hoax” in 1936 and Barry Goldwater to advocate the repeal of Social Security in 1964. In 1978, a young Bush ran for Congress claiming that Social Security would be broke by 1988 unless private accounts were established. Unfortunately for the would-be Congressman, he was wrong. Unfortunately for all college-aged Americans, Bush is trying to phase out Social Security once again...
...it’s less the administration than it is a culture of having really driven students and top-notch professors,” he said...