Police Corps concept: aims and cautions from editorial
The editorial questions Clinton's Police Corps plan offering up to 100,000 four year scholarships of 30000 dollars to students who would serve as police officers after graduation. It warns that long term commitment and rigorous training are essential and stresses that law enforcement demands a lifelong career, not a debt payoff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clinton
Congress
National Association of Police Organizations
Police Corps
When Older Films Show Timeless Grit and Shifts in Style
A critic compares 1990s releases When a Man Loves a Woman and Crooklyn with 1945 The Lost Weekend and 1962 Days of Wine and Roses. The piece notes stronger ratings tolerance, miscasting relief, and lasting power of classic cinema versus modern reimaginings. It highlights Crooklyn's weak structure versus A Tree Grows in Brooklyn's compelling storytelling.
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Meg Ryan
Schickel
Ray Milland
Jack Lemmon
Lee Remick
Spike Lee
Crooklyn
Elia Kazan
Brooklyn
Tennessee Williams
Health care reform stalls amid Congress and lobby clash
The piece argues that despite a national push for health care reform and high hopes from voters, Congress drags its feet while the system bleeds costs. It criticizes plans as cost shifting schemes, notes political theater in the Finance Committee, and highlights the contrast between medical advances and poor service delivery.
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Congress
America
Daniel P. Moynihan
Finance Committee
United States Senate
White House
Limit terms for integrity in Congress
Letter argues Rep. Dan Rostenkowski faces 17 counts and questions his claim of innocence. The writer says power creates unfair advantages and calls for term limits to restrain officials and protect constitutional principles. Cedar Rapids resident C A Thompson voices the concern.
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Dan Rostenkowski
Rep
Rostenkowski
U.S
Illinois
Congress
C.A. Thompson
Cedar Rapids
Remembering D Day and Freedom, A Widow Remembers
Pat Williams of Marion writes after D Day reflections about the value of freedom in voting, travel, and speech. She recalls her late husband’s Air Force service, time in Vienna, borders controlled by barbwire, and the sorrow of concentration camps, urging gratitude for liberty.
Gazette Open Letter Guidelines for Readers and Columns
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the Gazette
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Why do experts oppose social freedom
Wendell Bradley argues that liberal democracy fails to satisfy submerged peoples seeking rights to resources and self determination. He notes many ethnic groups exist in Africa and elsewhere and that nation states fragment under pressure from peoplehoods. Gottlieb proposes a nations without states path with autonomy for peoples, and brief historical comparisons illustrate limited local rights within larger empires and nations. Bradley, a professor, urges accepting undominated social choice to avoid coercive cultural domination and warfare.
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Wendell Bradley
Soviet Union
Stalin
Hitler
Africa
Nigeria
Karl Marx
Canada
Belgium
Iraq
Guatemala
Spain
Brazil
United Kingdom
United States
University of Chicago
Gidon Gottlieb
Yugoslavia
Foreign Affairs
Russia
Gottlieb
Municipia
Rome
Municipium
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Newsday
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Austria
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Edgewood
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