Arthur Denzau, in Society (MarchIApril 1989), Box A, Rutgers Univ., NewPaul Paid Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
Washington has leaped to defend Ameri- can manufacturers of computer chips against foreign competition; as a result, it has wounded the U.S. computer manufac- turers that use the chips.
This tale of perverse consequences, re- counted Denzau, a Washington Univer- sity economist, begins in 1986. In July of that year, the Reagan administration signed an agreement with Tokyo, ending alleged Japanese...
(MarchIApril 1989), Box A, Rutgers Univ., NewPaul Paid Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
Washington has leaped to defend Ameri- can manufacturers of computer chips against foreign competition; as a result, it has wounded the U.S. computer manufac- turers that use the chips.
This tale of perverse consequences, re- counted Denzau, a Washington Univer- sity economist, begins in 1986. In July of that year, the Reagan administration signed an agreement with Tokyo, ending alleged Japanese "dumping" of...
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What about the effect of racial deseg- regation? One 1965-72 study found that it helped black students in the North but had no effect in the South. There are no studies of long-term effects.
The results from high schools are more complete. Two studies show that students entering the ninth grade with comparable test scores are just as likely to graduate and attend college whether they attend high school in a poor or an affluent neigh- borhood.
But racial segregation does have a c...
local ama- teur acts and impromptu film criticism.
"The old Italians used to go to these mov- ies," recalled one patron, "and when the good guys were chasing the bad guys. . . they'd say [in Italian]-Getem-
catch them-out loud in the theater." Lo- cal radio broadcasts (e.g., "The Irish Hour") were usually tuned in at neighbor-
hood social clubs and were likewise sub- jected to community comment.
Chicago's workers bypassed the imper- sonal A&P supermarkets and...
contrast, a report the National Institute for Mental Health shows that vio- lence against children "appears to be de-
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creasing in America's intact families."
Christensen thinks that the "crisis" is largely the creation of certain feminists, academics, and social workers with a hid- den anti-family agenda. The very "solu-tions" they advocate-more intrusive in- vestigations, sex-abuse education in the schools-would further erode parental au-...
food. But it could be, as one former "big three" editor puts it, that readers simply did not care for the pabulum that the newsmagazines were dishing out in the first place.
"Economic News on Television: The Determinants of Cover-
The Bad News
age" David E. Harrington, in Public Opinion Quarterly Bias (Spring- 1989), Univ. of Chicago Press, P.O. BOX 37005, Chicago,
111. 60637.
As a rule, good news is no news in the minds of many journalists.
That formula certainly seems...
food. But it could be, as one former "big three" editor puts it, that readers simply did not care for the pabulum that the newsmagazines were dishing out in the first place.
"Economic News on Television: The Determinants of Cover-
The Bad News
age" David E. Harrington, in Public Opinion Quarterly Bias (Spring- 1989), Univ. of Chicago Press, P.O. BOX 37005, Chicago,
111. 60637.
As a rule, good news is no news in the minds of many journalists.
That formula certainly seems...
contrast, had thrived in his fa- ther's house. The boundless curiosity that his brother found so enervating, he found energizing. He soaked up experience, says Posnock, and converted it into fictions. Yet, the two were in fact not so very differ- ent. Henry, though younger, was in many ways the more mature of the two brothers. At least he grasped more rapidly the truth that thinking was doing. After reading Pragmatism (1907), he wrote to William, "I was lost in wonder of the extent to which...
God to save the Volk, as a relatively moderate Lutheran thinker, Paul Althaus, wrote in 1937.
Catholic doctrine was made in Rome, and thus did not bend as easily to Nazism. But, without papal leadership, German Catholics also succumbed to the national- ist disease. Like the Protestants, they ac- cepted Hitler's depiction of the Jews as en- emies of the Volk, responsible for Germany's humiliating surrender in 19 18. The Christians "preserved a frigid and uni- versal silence" when Hitler...
Darold A. Treffert, in The Sciences -savant Syndrome (Jan.-Feb. 1989), 2 E. 63rd St., New York, N.Y. 10021.
Blind, stooped, and palsied, Leslie Lemke, 36, has for 15 years astonished audiences with flawless renditions of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1. He has mastered not only the piano but the ukelele, the concertina, the xylophone, and the bongo drums. His performances are all the more amazing because Lemke has an I.Q.of 58. The same fingers that adroitly navigate...