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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...still, one might protest, surely a democracy depends upon an informed, engaged citizenry, and surely the best democracy is one where everyone is well- informed and everyone votes...
...seen the clever full-page ads put out by investment banks, promising "dynamic and rewarding" careers upon graduation. And you might have been to a reception where this rhetoric is accompanied by platters of cheese and fruit (shrimp, too, if you're lucky). The lovely folks in Human Resources set the stage, and all you have to do is sign up for a part. The name of the play is, of course, "The Good Life...
Wallerstein didn't always feel this way. Once upon a time, she too believed that a good divorce trumped a bad marriage where children were concerned. "The central paradigm now that is subscribed to throughout the country," says Wallerstein, "is if at the time of the breakup people will be civil with each other, if they can settle financial things fairly, and if the child is able to maintain contact with both parents, then the child is home free." Wallerstein helped build this model, she says, but now she's out to tear it down. "I'm changing my opinion...
...indigenous world-music forms. Instead, each of the pieces--Paris, Madrid, West Hartford and so on--is named after the location where Mehldau was when he began to compose it. He was out to capture not the region in question but the feelings of nostalgia he invariably had upon his departure. Writes Mehldau: "It seems like the grandeur of a place only reveals itself after I've left...
...world cannot rely on the military in every crisis. There are instances when disciplined and trained unarmed civilians have performed valuable peacekeeping roles. An international campaign is under way to organize a global nonviolent peace force. The U.N. should support such a force as another resource to call upon when humanitarian intervention is required. MEL DUNCAN St. Paul, Minn...