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When her son came to investigate, hernfound her sitting on a stump outside. Hernwas forced to take legal action over two orrnthree years, and he won. But when arnmilitiaman came to carry out the order ofrnthe court, the Albanian said that he had arnmachine gun and warned, “Whoever approachesrnwill be mowed down!” Thisrnprompted Ljubicic to...

ing local sovereignty and the economicrnwell-being of each. Under that proposal,rnKosovo would be one region and Metohijarnanother, even though until 1945rnMetohija was part of Montenegro, andrn60 percent of its properties were ownedrnby the Serbian Orthodox Church. Thisrnproposal seems to have little support.rnA third proposal would divide Yugoslaviarninto three federal units—Serbia,rnMontenegro, and Kosovo. This proposalrnseems to...

to tack on another 600,000 people whornmay be willing, but are not able, to work.rnThen there are those Americans who arernwilling and able to work, and are notrn(yet) incarcerated, but who are still preventedrnfrom working.rn”Ameritech set to ax 5,000 jobs,” readrnan Associated Press headline on April 15.rn”Intel to slash workforce by four percent,”rnscreamed an 11-inch...

surd. Its title could be “Perversion ofrnDemocracy.”rn”Perversion of the Individual” couldrnbe the title of the next act. Fortune 500rnexecutives often become corrupted withrnWall Street’s money and start to engagernin self-dealing, to the tune of tens or hundredsrnof millions of dollars (each). Enterrninsider trading . . . the ultimate WallrnStreet/Big Business Nirvana.rnIt goes like this. A...

population growth stops sooner.rnEast Germany’s experience with reunificationrnsuggests that the fertility raterncan fall below one child per woman.rnLive births declined 46 percent betweenrn1989 and 1991, a drop which NicholasrnEberstadt attributes to “enormous dislocationsrnin the economy.” By 1994, thernfertility rate was .77 births per woman,rndown 50.9 percent in five years due tornthe combined effects of a...

the early states had estabhshed churches,rnand even the federal Constitution —rnwhich sought scrupulously not to favorrnparticular religious establishments orrnsectarian creeds—contained several referencesrnto our shared Christian heritage.rnThe First Amendment, which guaranteedrnfreedom of religion and forbadernCongress from legislating “an establishmentrnof religion,” was not—as most nowrnwrongly believe—an attempt to create arn”Godless Constitution” or a secular society.rnIn fact, the...

state-imposed term limits for congressionalrnrepresentatives; the prohibitionrnon state-sponsored male-only militaryrnacademies; and the prohibition on statesrnoutlawing preferential treatment for homosexuals.rnThe plethora of court-imposedrnrestrictions on what states can do,rncoupled with the federal courts’ increasinglyrnpermissive reading of the CommercernClause to allow federal regulationrnof almost all state economic, educational,rncultural, or political activity, led tornsuch a weakening of state sovereigntyrnthat...

incorporation decisions betrayed our essentialrnbelief in dual sovereignty andrnwrongly reduced state citizens’ rights tornself-government. Remarkably, some legalrnhistorians have even suggested a reexaminationrnof the conditions underrnwhich the Reconstruction amendmentsrnwere passed. These amendments—thern13th, 14th, and 15th, dealing with slavery,rnthe franchise, and the exercise ofrncontract and property rights by the newrnfreedmen—were, as most Southernersrn(but only a few law...

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Modern Editions of Classic Worksrnfor Readers TodayrnSOVEREIGNTYrnAn Inquiry into the Political GoodrnBy Bertrand de JoiivenelrnTVanslated by J. F. HuntincjtonrnForeword by Daniel J. Mahoney and David DesRosiersrn i 1T ho decides? Who is Sovereign? What is a good act?” In quest ofrnVV answers to these vitally important questions, Bertrand dernJouvenei examines successively the nature and history...

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needs some better data. He would alsorndo well to remember that it is the “rich”rncapitalists who are creating jobs.rn— MaryKohlerrnSheboygan, WIrnMr. Djurdjevic Replies:rnShawn Mercer’s response to my columnrnis long on cliches and emotion, and shortrnon facts and new information. I trust thatrnthe readers of Chronicles can separaternMercer’s biases from the facts uponrnwhich my column was...

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONSrnH A T E C R I M E S were back in thernnews this summer. Of course, everyrncrime is a hate crime when considered asrna sin against charit}’ and against the divinelyrnordained institution of humanrngovernment. To this extent all crimesrnare equal, yet the United States government,rnwhile upholding as always thernprinciple of equality, is...

when he discovered “unequal and unreasonable”rnduties on American products.rnIn contrast, the President has totalrndiscretion —rather than a dut’—underrnthe Line Item Veto Act. Finally, whenrnthe President suspended tariff exemp-rnHons, ”he was executing the policy thatrnCongress had embodied in the statute.”rnWith the line item veto, the President rejectsrnthe policy judgment of Congress.rnAs for the government’s impoundmentrnargument, the...

avoid saying this: the combined best effortsrnof the left-leaning world of pop-culturerncriticism and the left-leaning politicalrnmedia establishment could notrngenerate commercial success (i.e., publicrnvalidation) for the left-leaning MikernNichols and the left-leaning WarrenrnBeatty.rnTheir povverlessness to control publicrnopinion often makes left-leaners bothrnseethe and engage in compidsive fits ofrnrationalization. Hence Mr. Weinraub’srnsummation as to why neither PrimaryrnColors nor Bulwoiih...

Pacific Affairs —Richard Holbrooke.rnHolbrooke’s policy became entrenched.rnCongress did not terminaternInternational Military Education andrnTraining (IMET) aid to Jakarta until afterrnthe November 1991 massacre of overrn270 East Timorese by Indonesian troops.rnHowever, in March 1997, in tesHmonyrnto the House Foreign Operations AppropriationsrnSubcommittee, the Clinton administrationrnadmitted providing Indonesiarnwith military training (includingrn”Advanced Sniper Techniciues,” “MilitaryrnOperations in Urban Terrain,” andrn”Air Assault”)...

PERSPECTIVErnIt Takes a Villagernby Thomas FlemingrnOne of the most popular fads in public education is thernreintroduction of school uniforms. In some Americanrnburgs, the proposal is greeted with general approval. In many,rnhowever, school boards, administrators, parents, and pupils arernput through the usual paces of reform, going from unfoundedrnoptimism through a stage of unreasoning resistance, and finallyrnto...

um), I have seen the endless Hst of tort fund expenditures tornboost the morale of minority students and their parents (includingrnweekend trips to expensive resorts), and I have watchedrnan uneducated superintendent fighting an expensive turf battlernwith a barely literate “master” for the title of least articulate educationistrnthis side of Chicago. But in all of the...

perate remedies. We are like frontier settlers whose last hopernlay in the secret cellar where they could hide when the hidiansrnhad broken into the cabin. What the settlers needed was arnstockade, a fortified community in which they could make arnunited stand against their remorseless attackers, and what parentsrnneed today are communities of friends and neighbors,rnchurch...

the dual authority’ of state superintendents and the U.S. Departmentrnof Education?rnOnly a hundred years ago, most public schools were reallyrncommunity schools under the direct control of the parents andrnrelatives who paid the taxes, elected a board from among themselves,rnand meddled in school affairs with impunity. The simplerntest of any school reform plan is to ask...

more devastation than in our public schools. Federal courtrntakeovers of our school districts have eliminated our ability tornmonitor and control the education of our children, our mostrnprecious commodih^ and our nation’s future. We must monitorrnclosely what our children are taught, how they are taught,rnand where the’ are taught. We must control the tax moneyrnprovided for...

main at the court-ordered level.rnFearing that Kansas Cit- residents would not approve continuingrnthe high tax rate, the state government put the matter torna statewide vote, as an amendment to Missouri’s constitution.rnhi other words, the entire state of Missouri would decide whatrnKansas City residents would pay in property’ taxes. Outstate voters,rnweary of making payments for “desegregation”...

cause the school board argued that their magnet school quotarnpolicy was necessar)’ under the desegregation order, the suit wasrnthen expanded in March to include a challenge to the entirerndesegregation plan, including mandator)’ busing.rnIn April, another group of parents formed COMPASSrn(Committee of Parents Supporting Students). They are challengingrnall race-based student assignment policies and seekingrninter’ention in the...

hvo agree on education. In 1994, Clinton signed the School-rnTo-Work Opportunities Act, which uses federal mandatesrnand funding to browbeat public schools into changing theirrnmission. Education’s traditional function is to teach basicrnknowledge and skills: reading, writing, and arithmetic. Schoolto-rnWork de-emphasizes academic work and substitutes mandatedrnvocational training to serve the corporate workforce.rn”The goal is not to graduate...

first checking to see whether there was water in the pool.rnUnder the gun, the state acted, jacking up the sales taxrnand cigarette taxes to cover the funding shortfall.rnBut the National Review account erred: it was not the staternHouse that created the crisis but the Republican-controlledrnSenate; the amendment abolishing property taxes was sponsoredrnby Senator Debbie Stabenow...

quires a radical departure from business as usual. But what reallyrndrives charter schools into existence is demand. In justrnthree years of operation, Arizona has opened over 240 charterrnschools, many of which now have waiting lists. This demand isrnnot a small issue: it is the issue.rnUnder marketplace reforms, schools only open if they can attractrnstudents. The...

traditional schools when it comes to agreements for school costrncontributed by developers, or other requirements generallyrnsought by city councils to benefit new communities. For thernfirst time, the local school district has a competitor for schoolrndevelopment in new communities, and that is good news.rnWlien marketplace principles touch a centrally planned system,rnexpect fireworks. Those who have learned...

random basis from all those pupils who apply and meet thesernreligious-neutral criteria.” And again, “the participating privaternschools must select on a random basis the students attendingrntheir schools.”rnThat’s right: random admissions, somewhat like publicrnschools. The inability to pick and choose among students, andrnkick out students who do not cut it in academics or discipline,rnis one of...

dents pay the lion’s share of the taxes that run their schools—tornkeep out the failed or violent students from across town who arernconstantly clamoring for a free ride.rnOf course, if a town wants to abolish its school districts, itrnshould be free to do so. But there is a reason they do not. Districtrnborders work like...

partner of both Lincoln and Edgar’s father,rnHardin Masters. Up to the age ofrn43, Edgar Lee Masters himself pursuedrnthe profession of law. In 1892, after arnyear of college, he passed the Illinois barrnand moved to Chicago, where he eventuallyrnformed a partnership with ClarencernDarrow, which lasted from 1903 to 1911.rnLike his fellow Midwesterner SherwoodrnAnderson, Masters abandoned a...

toriety by gunning down a public figure.rnBooth, however, was a celebrity long beforernhis fatal encounter with Lincoln. Itrnwas his co-conspirators — Lewis Powell,rnDavid Herold, and George Atzerodt—rnwho more closely resembled the LeernHarvey Oswalds and James Earl Rays ofrnour time. Booth was more like O.J.rnSimpson with a political agenda.rnRobertson tells his story through thernvoice of John...

entirely to any actual place or landscapernof the mind (unlike Robert Frost, whosernNorth of Boston is a constant backgroundrnand who could say of himself earlyrnon: “they would not find me changedrnfrom him they knew— / onl)- more surernof all I thought was true”). But then, perhaps,rnour fragmented society requires arnmore roving perspective, a kind of...

I finish I feel content, like I’ve been awayrnfor a while.” For him, the SCV is importantrnbecanse it “brings people together,rnlike the War did. I sit in a room with arndoctor and pastor and such. . . . We’rernall together for the same reason.”rnJust south of Adanta in Clavton Countv,rnby contrast, the Old South meansrnmoney....

Principalities & Powersrnbv Samuel FrancisrnAfter the Cold Warrn(This column was originally delivered asrnthe keynote speech at a Chronicles’ conference,rn”Overcoming the Schism: EuropeanrnDivisions and U.S. Policy,” held inrnChicago on May 8.)rnYou would never guess that the ColdrnWar is over. Almost all commentatorsrnon foreign policy start off their speechesrnor articles by performing an obligatoryrnknee bend to the...

own pensions from the federal government.rnIn the 1990’s, conservatives crowrnabout our “victory in the Cold War,” butrnvirtually nothing we did during the ColdrnWar deserves the name of victory. Wernarmed our enemies with trade deals andrngrain deals even as we sent Americanrntroops to fight against the war machinernthat American capitalism helped build.rnWe betrayed ally after ally...

CORRESPONDENCErnLetter FromrnNew Yorkrnby Robert BermanrnThe Asphalt LeaguernIn his 1942 swan song. The NewrnLeviathan, dying British philosopherhistorianrnR.G. Collingwood called thernlife of the mind “a magic journey.” Remarkablyrnfree of illusions regarding thernlife of the university, however, Collingwoodrnargued for “domesticating” professors,rnrather than being subject to them.rnBut things have only gotten worse sincernthen. Whether “public” or “private,” today’srnuniversity might...

Meanwhile—surprise, surprise —securit}-rnguards and eustodians reported recurringrnviolent incidents in that department’srnclasses.rnThanks to the nationwide policy ofrn”mismatching,” chronicled by ThomasrnSowell in Inside American Education,rnCUNY is at the bottom of a pyramid ofrnblack failure. For over 30 years, admissionsrnofficials have systematically “mismatched”rnblack applicants, admittingrnthem to schools for which they were unqualified,rnand thus setting them up forrnfailure. As...

thought the preceding answer was correct.rnThere is a difference between the levehngrnsociaHsm of a Bill Clinton, whosernplan to guarantee that every Americanrnspends at least two years confined to anrninstitution of higher education presupposesrnthe open admissions model, andrnthe pre-open admissions CCNY, whosernsocialism was limited to being tuitionfree.rnCClNYs socialism was amelioratedrnby a radical meritocracy that severelyrnlimited access,...

practice is for the private sector.rnThe Court made clear that not onlyrnhistory courses (such as those approvedrnby Judge Kovachevich) but academic religiousrnstudies courses are permitted.rnThe Supreme Court explicitly allows thernreligious study of religion, not only thernhistorical study of religion, and there is arndifference. Each discipline frames mattersrnin its own terms. A history departmentrnoffers a course...

and hence a useful subject of conversation.rnNo two Aprils are ever alike, norrntwo afternoons in anv April, nor twornhours in any April afternoon, and nobodyrnin London ever saw the same kindrnof rain twice. It is always smaller, or flatter,rnor steeper, or softer, or whiter, orrnlonger, or louder than another day’s rain,rnsometimes falling over just half...

country cooking or a Mussolini rallyrnthan a clever remark or French nouvellerncuisine or a volume of Nietzsche. Whyrnelse would all happy families look alike?rnWhy else would anybody come to Fregene?rnThe lumping of truth with beauty is arncharacteristically northern, cold-bloodedrnplatitude. In reality they could not bernfarther apart, those two, like Moscow andrnSt. Petersburg in the last...