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Scrapbook Hey, This Pro-Choice We Like: It's hard to think of a place that needs school reform more than Washington, D.C.-or a place that seems less likely to get it. Washington's school system,...
...Sorry, Newt...
...The greatest of Puritan sermons, the one that gave birth to the very notion of Everlasting Hellfire...
...Cut their pay and send them home...
...No Exit, by Jean-Paul Sartre...
...The Reading List: Here's a short primer for a certain acquitted celebrity on what to expect when judgment is finally passed upon him: The Inferno, by Dante...
...A list of predictions for each of the presidential contenders: • Colin Powell: Bob Woodward...
...In conservative circles, which run their own risk of becoming politically correct in their own fashion, it is often customary to pit Rousseau against Burke to the detriment of the former...
...Allan was by no means blind to the merits of Burke, and even appreciated the latter's characterization of Rousseau as the 'insane Socrates of the French National Assembly,' but Burke tends to stand for prudence, and prudence is a close relative of moderation, and neither his close friends nor bitter enemies would ever call Allan Bloom moderate...
...Well, we asked Luntz to broaden the question: If you had your choice, would you rather your child grow up and be like Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, or Bob Dole...
...Westbrook Pegler (posthumous...
...Steve Forbes: Jude Wanniski, Michael Milken, Jay Gould (posthumous...
...The article's concluding paragraph on page 47 should have read as follows: "Shoshana once told me she was reminded of Allan when she read, in Goethe's Elective Affinities, the line that against a genius we have but one defense, to love him...
...She loved him, and so did many of us, and it wasn't just defensive, though he was a genius...
...A work by Ireland's funniest writer, during the course of which you realize that the narrator is writing from Hell...
...Enter Steve Gunderson, a Republican in his last term representing Wisconsin in the House...
...maybe they read Connie Bruck's hatchet job on you in last week's New Yorker-an article remarkable in the annals of political journalism for its astounding, breathtaking illiteracy about the workings of Washington and Congress...
...In which Hell is other people, and we don't mean A.C...
...Come on along...
...To say nothing of the education offered, or lack of it...
...Using a block of federal money, Gunderson's plan would award scholarships to poor kids, allowing them to go to private schools...
...Robert Dole: Greg Schnacke, his legislative director, with a big thanks to all the guys down at the mark-up session of the Conference committee...
...Arlen Specter: Margaret Sanger (posthumous...
...Gramm once her son is chief executive...
...Pat Buchanan: Generalissimo Francisco Franco (posthumous...
...Gunderson intends, presently, to attach an amendment to the District's congressional appropriation that would give students a chance to opt out of public education...
...But who will win the Medal in the next administration...
...Pope Leo XIII (posthumous...
...Alan Keyes: Harry V. Jaffa...
...honorable mention to Mah Momma (as all Americans will refer to Mrs...
...The Third Policeman, by Flann O'Brien...
...The other preferences were Hillary (10 percent), Gore and Dole (both 8), Clinton (7), Gingrich (6), and don't know (36...
...Allan had many right-wing views but was not really a conservative and refused to call himself one...
...Which is a good thing...
...Washington's school system, you'll remember, is the one that doesn't seem to know how many students it actually has, the system in which a quarter of school security guards recently were found to have criminal records...
...Here She is, Mah Momma: President Clinton has announced this year's winners of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and (as is true of all administrations) the list is a distillation of the social and cultural attitudes of the White House...
...Should the plan become law, suits are bound to be filed against it, and are likely to proceed quickly to the Supreme Court...
...just regular folks who know what to do, unlike those folks up in Washington...
...Cowlings and Kato Kaelin (though for us, that would be Hell enough...
...Since the District has no state constitution, such a case will decide only one question: Does using public funds to send kids to private and religious schools violate the First Amendment...
...Seventy-two percent said no...
...Richard Lugar: Lee Hamilton, Cyrus Vance, Warren Christopher (posthumous-oops, sorry, living...
...Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, by Jonathan Edwards...
...It would be a perfect-and needed-test case on school choice...
...H. Ross Perot: H Ross Perot...
...Father Charles Coughlin (posthumous...
...Lamar Alexander: Mary Anne and Robby Jones of Tupegula, Tenn...
...In which, guided by the poet Virgil, our hero sees those who murdered their loved ones forever tormented for their crimes...
...Correction: Due to an error by the printer, two lines were dropped from last week's memoir, "My Friend, Allan Bloom," by Werner J. Dannhauser...
...The Standard Question: Remember that question pollster Frank Luntz asked a few months ago about President Clinton-the one that asked, "Would you want your son or daughter to grow up and be like him...
...The paragraph at the end of page 45 should have read as follows: "Rousseau also served Allan as a safeguard against an overalliance with conservatism...
...The winner, in Luntz's national survey the last week of September, was Powell at 26 percent...
...This year's honorees include Earth Day creator Gaylord Nelson, liberal historian John Hope Franklin, and (posthumously) union leader Walter Reu-ther...
...Abraham Lincoln (posthumous...
...At the same time, the plan would force public schools to get their act together by making the city government tie funding to enrollment...
...Phil Gramm: Dickey Flatt...
Vol. 1 • October 1995 • No. 5
