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C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Deeper Into Deutch Byron York's article on John Deutch, former director of the CIA, omitted one salient fact: Deutch has served his country with distinction for...
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...Bovard ignores the fact that AmeriCorps is winning support from growing numbers of Republicans, many of them conservatives...
...Last July, a bipartisan coalition of senators including John McCain (RAZ), Gordon Smith (R-WA [sicJ), Mike DeWine (R-OH), and Conrad Burns (RMT) introduced legislation to reauthorize AmeriCorps because they recognize the program's success and believe government has a role to play in both calling on citizens to serve and creating opportunities for them to do so...
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...I merely specified that "almost half quit the program before completing their term of service...
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...They can achieve much more of an effect with simple explosives, or perhaps as Roberts suggests, using biologically or chemically hazardous materials...
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...Department of Energy University of Tulsa College of Law Tulsa, Oklahoma Drop In, Drop Out In his enthusiasm to bash President Clinton and discredit the service of 150,ooo AmeriCorps members who have proudly served their country, James Bovard consistent]y gets the facts wrong, uses misleading anecdotes, and abandons other journalistic standards ("AmeriCorps: Salvation Via Hand-Holding," TAS, July/August aooe...
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...WILLIAM a. COOPER Former Minnesota Republican Party Chair Minneapolis, Minnesota 74 October 2000 . The American Spectator Better Than Hollywood There normally isn't much (actually, there usually isn't anything) that I find to disagree with in TAS, but I'm afraid I've got to part company with Evan Gahr on the issue of disenfranchising criminals ("Crirninal Voters," TAS, June 2000...
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...C O R R E S P O N D E N C E Deeper Into Deutch Byron York's article on John Deutch, former director of the CIA, omitted one salient fact: Deutch has served his country with distinction for a good part of his adult life ("Deep in Deutch," TAS, July/August 2ooo...
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...There is no sense that the NEA contributes to anything like distinction in the arts, which an educated public would readily discern...
...Regarding casualties, the source I relied on is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which estimated in a 198o study that a worst-case explosion of a used nuclear fuel cask in Manhattan would kill 2,49 z people...
...To understand the galvanic effect a nuclear accident, or act of nuclear terrorism, has on a society all that is required is to go to Ukraine and talk to real people about real events...
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...For example, he describes AmeriCorps members as "illiterate" when in fact, more than 7 o percent are college graduates or have some college...
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...Robert Gale, who treated Chernobyl firefighters exposed to lethal radiation, would agree that radiation is safer than commonplace materials...
...I am sorry that a respected journal such as yours has supplied the oxygen of publicity to the cause of these two men, and would hope that, in the future, you and your contributors research your expos@ a little more thoroughly...
...Besides, the average inmate has a lot better grasp of"the issues" than most of Hollywood-and I don't see anyone moving to disenfranchise John Travolta...
...Encouraging prisoners to take a stake in "the system" and behave as responsible citizens may be a crucial step in preventing recidivism...
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...The artists who profit most from government largesse are those whose talent is least conspicuous, and much of the "public art" produced for public spaces is appalling...
...But when former Assistant FBI Director James Kallstrom tells me that Ramzi Youssefplanned to use radioactive materials in the World Trade Center bomb, I figure my opinion about the rationality or irrationality of terrorism doesn't matter...
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...He further claims that "half of all AmeriCorps members drop out," when overall attrition is less than half that--significantly lower than that of four-year colleges, or the military...
...Using spent fuel to commit a terrorist act is irrational even for irrational terrorists...
...Jane Alexander came to Washington to resuscitate a federal agency that, as often happens, was founded on ideals but descended into squalor...
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...Most aren't interested in keeping classical music or Elizabethan drama alive, and Jane Alexander's NEA recoils from such elitism...
...In Europe, subsidies for the arts also mean cash for institutions of distinction: symphony orchestras, famous museums, historic opera companies...
...Prisons are, on one level, a way to warehouse those who are hopelessly unable to function in society...
...As long as they could meet the entrance requirements, Catholic or not, they were accepted...
...Gahr isn't incensed so much by the idea of letting felons vote nearly as much as he's annoyed by the fact that they just might vote Democratic...
...But these were broken into "positive" and "negative"--and the "positive" ones didn't count, thus allowing AmeriCorps to greatly understate its dropout rate...
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...But if Germany is anything to go by--and it is the country whose taxpayer-financed art I know best--it's a dubious investment...
...I graduated from (Continued on page 74) The American Spectator _9 0 c t o b e r 2 o o o tutes, and the philistine's conviction that all art is of equal value...
...TARA MURPHY Director of Public Affairs Corporation for National Service Washington, D. C. ]ames Bovard replies: I'm amused that Ms...
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...Nor would the Ukrainian families whose children suffered epidemic levels of thyroid cancer as a result of the explosion and spread of radioactive debris...
...It's true that the kind of inmate likely to care about voting is probably the sort that recognizes his mistakes and will go straight anyway...
...Timmerman wants to write about a scandal which did actually take place rather than one which exists only in the minds of a pair of paranoid criminals he should inquire into how a convicted fraudster and a bankrupt property developer were able to establish their network of "smoke and mirrors" companies, enlist the (no doubt well-meaning) assistance of members of Congress and the Senate to lend their activities a spurious credibility, make wildly exaggerated and downright false claims on behalf of themselves and their enterprises, commit multi-million dollar escrow fraud, and still remain free to continue practicing their shabby deceptions...
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...After all that, if the terrorists could possibly blow up some spent fuel they would contaminate the immediate area, but rea]ly harm very few people...
...On one trip to Ukraine, Delmar Bergen, a nuclear weapons engineer and former deputy director of Los Alamos X Division, where nuclear weapons are designed, alerted me to the fact that he and his colleagues were concerned about terrorist use of radiological dispersal bombs...
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...Some of the quitters may come back later and attend AmeriCorps projects for enough hours to fulfill their time...
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