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Prison has a role in public safety, but it is not a cure-all. Its value is limited, and its use should also be limited to what it does best: isolating young criminals long enough to give them a chance to grow up and get a grip on their impulses. It is a traumatic experience, certainly, but it should be only a temporary one, not a way of life. Prisoners kept too long tend to embrace the criminal culture, its distorted values and beliefs; they have little choice -- prison is their life. There are some prisoners who cannot be returned...
...book, Route 666, rock critic Gina Arnold examines the rise of college radio in the wake of the birth of punk in the '70s: "When mainstream radio lost its grip on music, then the long-dormant airwaves of the college radio stations...became an invaluable American network...the inevitable conduit for all the independently released records to be given their due. They played the unheard music...
Clinton's first budget does represent the boldest attempt in more than a decade to get a grip on federal spending and bring down the budget deficit. Under the Administration's optimistic numbers, 1995 outlays would rise a modest 2.3% above those of 1994. Under Reagan and Bush, by contrast, federal spending jumped an average of 6.3% a year. Moreover, the budget would cut government spending to 21.6% of the country's gross domestic product, the lowest level since 1979. And the deficit would shrink to just 2.1% of GDP by 1999, down from 4% when Clinton took office...
Last week the Prime Minister's grip weakened when the Social Democrats, the largest party in his coalition, threatened to quit over a new plan to cut taxes $55 billion this year and impose a new 7% "national welfare" sales tax in 1997. The changes were part of a $138 billion package to fire up the economy and satisfy Washington's demands for a strong boost to consumer spending. The Social Democrats rebelled at the new tax, which Hosokawa had adopted under pressure from the tightfisted Ministry of Finance, and forced the Prime Minister to abandon the plan. The fiasco...
Perhaps the state has been through too much to be able to tax its way out of its latest catastrophe. "This time," says political scientist Sherry Bebitch Jeffe of the Claremont Graduate School, "we are facing the fifth year of a budget deficit. We are still in the grip of the most serious recession in California since the Great Depression. And on top of everything else, this is an election year in California...