Rep. Mickey Edwards, in Pol-icy Review (Spring 1989), 214 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Wash- Good Prince ington, D.C. 20002.

"The reigns of good princes have always been most dangerous to the liberties of their peoples," wrote the philosopher John Locke (1 632-1 704), because "their succes- sors, managing the government with dif- ferent thoughts, would draw the actions of those good rulers into precedent."
American conservatives, writes Rep. Ed- wards (R-Okla.), chairman of the H...

Rep. Mickey Edwards, in Pol-icy Review (Spring 1989), 214 Massachusetts Ave. N.W., Wash- Good Prince ington, D.C. 20002.

"The reigns of good princes have always been most dangerous to the liberties of their peoples," wrote the philosopher John Locke (1 632-1 704), because "their succes- sors, managing the government with dif- ferent thoughts, would draw the actions of those good rulers into precedent."
American conservatives, writes Rep. Ed- wards (R-Okla.), chairman of the H...

for black interests. In the West, where the races are less polarized, blacks find it easier to win elections and to join the ruling coalition in city hall.
The lesson is clear, says Mladenka. Blacks need not rely solely on Washington or white allies for a larger share of the po- litical pie. In most cities, they can make the political process work in their favor.

"While Justice Sleeps" Terry Eastland, in National ReviewAge and the Court (April 21, 1989), P.O.Box 96639, Washington, D...

Mike Mans- Pax Nipponica? field, in Foreign Affairs (Spring 1989), 58 E. 68th St., New York,
N.Y. 10021, and "Four Japanese Scenarios for the Future" Takashi Inoguchi in International Affairs (Winter 1988-89), 80 Montvale Ave., Stoneham, Mass. 02 180.

Mike Mansfield, the recently retired U.S. ambassador to Tokyo (1 977-89), minces no words: "The most important bilateral relationship in the world today is that be- tween the United States and Japan." To- gether, the two nations a...

Mike Mans- Pax Nipponica? field, in Foreign Affairs (Spring 1989), 58 E. 68th St., New York,
N.Y. 10021, and "Four Japanese Scenarios for the Future" Takashi Inoguchi in International Affairs (Winter 1988-89), 80 Montvale Ave., Stoneham, Mass. 02 180.

Mike Mansfield, the recently retired U.S. ambassador to Tokyo (1 977-89), minces no words: "The most important bilateral relationship in the world today is that be- tween the United States and Japan." To- gether, the two nations a...

some Europeans-and, as al-ways, splitting the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Europe 1992 gives Gorbachev the opportunity to do both.
Already, Hungary and Poland have sought stronger ties to the EEC. Assuming a continuation of today's era of good feel- ins "a request for membership an East European country, made in the name of peace and reconciliation. ..would be difficult to reject." That would short-cir- cuit European political union and make impossible the EEC's current...

David Osbome, in The New Republic (April 3, 1989), 1220 19th St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036.
Jack Kemp, the new Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Devel- opment, may be the only bona fide activist in the Bush cabinet. So it is a safe bet that federal "enterprise zones," Kemp's pana- cea for the nation's blighted inner-city neighborhoods, will become reality before too long.
The problem, contends Osborne, the au- thor of Laboratories of Democracy (1988), is that enterprise...

Susan
'GO Ho~~Ywoo~'? Chnstophenon and Michael Storper, in Industrial and Labor Relations Review (April 19891, 207 ILR Research Bldg., Cornell Univ.. Ithaca. N.Y. 1485 1-0952.
How can America's smokestack industries save themselves? "Flexible specialization,' answer many management specialists. The concept is not just a business-school buzz- word, report Christopherson and Storper, of Cornell and UCLA, respectively. Steel, autos, and a few other industries are al- ready experimenting with...

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...

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tarded, often autistic; six out of seven are males. Most excel at "right-brained" activi- ties, such as music and art. Other savants are "left-brained" mathematical wizards or "lightning calculators" who can, for exam- ple, instantly determine whether Christ- mas fell on a Sunday in 1654.
Researchers for more than a century have sought the causes of this rare endow- ment of gift and affliction-without great success. Recently, says Treffert, Harvard n...

the U.S. utilities' reluctance, until recently, to co- operate among themselves to exchange in-

RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT
formation, improve equipment, and assess performance. If the U.S. nuclear industry is to succeed, the authors believe, the worst must learn from the best.

The Desert "The Myth of the Marching Desert" Bill Forse, in The New Scientist (Feb. 4, 1989), Oakfield House, 35 Perrymount Rd. Doesn't Grow Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH 16 3DH, England.

The headlines warn...

the U.S. utilities' reluctance, until recently, to co- operate among themselves to exchange in-

RESOURCES & ENVIRONMENT
formation, improve equipment, and assess performance. If the U.S. nuclear industry is to succeed, the authors believe, the worst must learn from the best.

The Desert "The Myth of the Marching Desert" Bill Forse, in The New Scientist (Feb. 4, 1989), Oakfield House, 35 Perrymount Rd. Doesn't Grow Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH 16 3DH, England.

The headlines warn...

the nine states that have

ARTS & LETTERS
passed deposit laws requiring the return of plastic soda bottles. Such obligatory pro- grams ensure 70 to 90 percent participa- tion rates consumers; only 10 to 30 per- cent participate in the purely voluntary recycling efforts of towns and cities.
Collecting, sorting, and reprocessing plastics remains an expensive proposition. But the plastics industry, fearful of legisla- tive efforts to curb the use of plastics, is working hard on these problems. It...

1973, Duke El- lington could remark with pleasure that it had become "difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Al- ley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between classical music and jazz."
Mirk's Heresy "Mir6's Paradox: What Happened After 'the Death of Painting'" Hilton Kramer, in The New Criterion (Jan. 1989), 850 Sev-enth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10019.
"I want to assassinate" painting, Joan Mir6 in his devotion to...

the art world, Kramer la- work. Today, when the latest self-pro- ments, Mid's method has fallen into lesser claimed "assassin" finds himself quickly hands and become a "shallow orthodoxy."
The Digitized "The Electronic Word: Literary study and the Digital Revolu- tion" Richard A. Lanham, in New Literary History (WinterWord 1989), Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 701 W. 40th St., Ste. 275,
Baltimore. Md. 2121 1.

Despite the onslaught of television the printed word is s...

the art world, Kramer la- work. Today, when the latest self-pro- ments, Mid's method has fallen into lesser claimed "assassin" finds himself quickly hands and become a "shallow orthodoxy."
The Digitized "The Electronic Word: Literary study and the Digital Revolu- tion" Richard A. Lanham, in New Literary History (WinterWord 1989), Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 701 W. 40th St., Ste. 275,
Baltimore. Md. 2121 1.

Despite the onslaught of television the printed word is s...

one road. After a 1985 uprising in the township of Langa, South African security forces abolished the township and forcibly relocated thousands of residents.
During the early 1960s, notes Herbst, the revolutionary African National Con- gress (ANC) renounced popular insurrec- tion as futile. Nelson Mandela warned that it would lead to strife among blacks. In fact, perhaps one third of the 2,600 blacks who were victims of political violence be- tween 1984 and November 1987 were killed other blacks....

a
new tax on workingmen's beer.
Sweden trod much the same path when it created its social security system in 1913, notes Baldwin. Only later would Scandinavia's socialists take credit for (and build upon) measures which many of them had in fact opposed.
Scandinavia's welfare states, says Bald- win, are not the product of "supposedly unique Scandinavian social virtues or. . .socialism's heroic march in these most quintessentially petty bourgeois of European nations. The origins of virtue...

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