definition from the Western nation. But in eastern-central and Balkan Europe, Pfaff observes, nationality is based on ethnic or religious background; it cannot be acquired immigrants or other "outsiders." People who belong to "other" eth- nic groups cannot be deemed fully equal. Since "the frontiers between national groups are of- ten indistinct or arbitrary, with groups of differ- ent ethnic nationality intermingled," the result has been discrimination against minorities...
spe- cial interests rather than strategic intent." Which'special interests and favored constituen- cies are in the driver's seat will depend on which party is in power.
Any Republican industrial policy, Phillips maintains, "is likely to be 'half-baked1-grudg- ing, halfhearted, flawed by huge gaps, and bi- ased toward investors and financial markets." Any Democratic policy is bound to be "'over- done'-bureaucratic, out of touch with the dy- namics of business in a global economy,...
lowering wages." sion making, and stepping up training What they should be doing instead, Hoerr as- programs." With the permanent-replacement serts, is "improving productivity reorganiz- strategy, Hoerr maintains, U.S. business may ing work, giving workers more voice in deci- well be shooting itself in the foot.
Discount "Sam Walton and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: A Study in Modem Southern Entrepreneurship" by Sandra S. Vance and Roy V.Destruction? Scott, in The Journal of Southern...
lowering wages." sion making, and stepping up training What they should be doing instead, Hoerr as- programs." With the permanent-replacement serts, is "improving productivity reorganiz- strategy, Hoerr maintains, U.S. business may ing work, giving workers more voice in deci- well be shooting itself in the foot.
Discount "Sam Walton and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.: A Study in Modem Southern Entrepreneurship" by Sandra S. Vance and Roy V.Destruction? Scott, in The Journal of Southern...
Elliott J. Gom, in Media Studies Journal (Win-Trash Jouma~ism ter 19921, Columbia Univ., 2950 Broadway, New York, N.Y.
10027.
Before the National Enquirer and tabloid televi- sion, before the New York Post and other scan- dal sheets, there was a lurid and extremely pop- ular publication the name of the National Police Gazette. "Murder and Suicide: A Gush of Gore and Shattering Brains All Around the Ho- rizon" was just one of its regular columns. Un- der the direction of Richard Kyle...
the 1890s, many of
them were packaging the news
"as a series of melodramas and
atrocities, of titillating events
covered as spectacles, com-
plete with illustrations."
Fox had sensed the enor-
mous potential audience
among the wage earners of the
Gilded Age. To workers seek-
ing escape from dull jobs-or
just relief from the Victorian
ethos-his G...
Steven
The Limits
Forde, in The Journal of Politics (May 1992), Dept. of Political Of Realism Science, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, La. 70803.
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the last half-century, through the work of Hans J. Morgenthau, George F. Kennan, Reinhold Niebuhr, and others, realism-i.e. skepticism about the applicability of ethical standards to international politics-has be-come a leading school of thought on interna- tional relations. Today, the realist mantle is claimed both "neoisolationist" liber...
Steven
The Limits
Forde, in The Journal of Politics (May 1992), Dept. of Political Of Realism Science, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, La. 70803.
~urin~
the last half-century, through the work of Hans J. Morgenthau, George F. Kennan, Reinhold Niebuhr, and others, realism-i.e. skepticism about the applicability of ethical standards to international politics-has be-come a leading school of thought on interna- tional relations. Today, the realist mantle is claimed both "neoisolationist" liber...
Rome, blacks in some parishes cele- brate mass with gospel choirs and practice bap- tism immersion.
Yet, discontent simmers. Some black Catho- lics favor a new canonical rite for themselves, a separate denomination within the Catholic Church with its own liturgy, canon law, and clergy. The rite, if approved by Rome, would make the African-American denomination the second-largest black church in the United States, after the Baptists.
But many black Catholics are wary. There is concern, says Elie,...
yield "a conclu-sion based on a much larger sample than any single study." In this way, he contends, the weaknesses of individual stud- ies often will be exposed, and patterns sometimes will appear that were invisible to the origi- nal investigators. "Virtually all studies have flaws or biases," Olkin says, "and it may well be that the only way to ascertain the truth is to search for pat- terns in an aggregate of stud- ies." Call it the Oat Bran Rule.
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