Editorials
CONTENTS Volume CXVIIt, Number 8 Correspondence 242 Editorials 243 Federal budget squeeze: Nancy Amidei 245 Shifting gears: Peadar Kirby 246 The Gulf war: Abigail McCarthy ...
...John E Kennedy borrowed it...
...Nevertheless, since the likely cost effectiveness of Schumer's proposal would not show up right away, funding it under the budget agreement would require either a tax rise or a cut in some other domestic program (not in military spending), so that even its author and chief promoter is dubious about its chances for passage...
...From the report of a long-term study of ex-prisoners, Congressman Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y...
...In most other respects we are adrift, and this at a time of economic peril, domestic suffering, and social decay...
...Largely because of cuts in federal funding, there are a thousand fewer 19 April 1991:243...
...266 Pity the Nation: George Emile Irani 267 Religious booknotes: Lawrence S. Cunningham 268 STAFF Editor: Margaret O'Brien Steinfels Managing Editor: Patrick Jordan Associate Editor: Paul Baumann Production Editor: Patricia Mazzola Assoc...
...Production Editor: Jacqueline Dowdell Senior Writer: Robert G. Hoyt Movies: Richard Alleva Stage: Gerald Weales Poetry: Rosemary Deen Columnists: John Garvey, J. Bryan Hehir, Abigail McCarthy, David R. Carlin, Jr...
...Sage sayings...
...crime prevention, after all, serves not only potential victims (and victimizers), but all taxpayers, since it eliminates some costs of enforcement and incarceration...
...have decided, in fact, to make it all but impossible for themselves or anyone to make large decisions about the nation's purpose and direction...
...Each nation must decide how limited resources are to be used to satisfy both the present and future needs of its people...
...Portland...
...A small-scale example of its effects was provided in a "Washington Memo" by David E. Rosenbaum of the New York Times [March 20...
...but, in any time or place, easier to announce than to implement...
...According to Rosenbaum, no one so far opposes the idea...
...whatever one thinks of the choices made, they were quick, clear, and as decisive as anyone could ask...
...To govern," he said, "is to choose...
...CONTENTS Volume CXVIIt, Number 8 Correspondence 242 Editorials 243 Federal budget squeeze: Nancy Amidei 245 Shifting gears: Peadar Kirby 246 The Gulf war: Abigail McCarthy 248 Christian wholeness: John Garvey 249 Operation 'Domestic Order': Raymond L. Flynn 251 Poetry: Kathleen T. Choi Joan I. Siegel 254 258 Give me shelter: John J. Piderit 256 Screen: Paul Baumann 259 Stage: Gerald Weales 261 BOOKS Selected Poems, 1966-1987: Edward T. Wheeler 262 The True and Only Heaven: Wilson Carey McWilliams 264 Letters of Katherine Anne Porter: Robert E. Hosmer, Jr...
...learned that more than three-quarters of those required to undergo antidrug therapy while in prison had committed no crimes for a full decade after their release...
...An exception must be made for the Gulf war...
...k The columnist Leonard Silk turned the aphorism to his own purposes in Economics in Plain English (Simon & Schuster): "To economize is to choose...
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...Still another is the closing of subsidized gynecological clinics, reviewed in the Times for March 25...
...How it works and what it means are explained, in part, in an article by Nancy Amidei in this issue [page 245...
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...A risk in time 6 Pv'~~ ouverner, c'est choisir," wrote the eighteenth-century nobleman and maxim-coiner, the Duc de Lrvis...
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...One principal mechanism through which our leaders opted for stasis is embodied in the budget-control agreement reached last year by the Bush administration and the Congress...
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...Nancy Amidei cites other instances of social investments that are obviously ben- eficial and have earned a high rate of return on investment--Head Start for children, WIC for pregnant women--but that are underfunded (a condition unlikely to be remedied) and therefore don't reach all they could serve or save all they might...
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...Impressed, Schumer has drawn up a proposal for a $150 million program to provide treatment to all addicted federal prisoners...
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...At this time in this country, our biggest problem may be that the nation's leaders--pre- ferring politics as posturing and camouflage over politics as the art of governance--have chosen not to choose...
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