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Can Men Have It All?
The Contrarian
By: Naomi Lopez
8.26.1999
Advocates of gender preferences charge that, despite signs of success, an impenetrable glass ceiling still renders women powerless in reaching the highest positions in corporate America. While that charge is little more than illusion, it may come as a surprise that men are struggling to achieve parity with women in the workplace.
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The $5 Billion Kidnapping Plot
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
8.24.1999
"It is an enormous idea, an important idea, and it is going to happen," said Senator Barbara Boxer here last week, speaking of her "Early Education Act of 1999," a $300-million plan for taxpayer-funded pre-school, beginning at age three.
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The Age of Hunt
Capital Ideas
By: Steven F. Hayward, Ph.D
8.18.1999
Readers will recall the end of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, where the narrator Charles Ryder refers to the "Age of Hooper" as an epithet for the egalitarianism of the 20th century. (Hooper was the incompetent and uncomprehending junior officer, representing the flattened mediocrity of public education.)
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Title IX Tarnishes World Cup Victory
The Contrarian
By: Joanna Elachi
8.16.1999
Just a month ago, the country watched proudly as the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team defeated China to win the World Cup, a spectacular victory before a worldwide television audience. But to hear some tell it, these women could not have achieved that victory without help from the federal government.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Capital Ideas
By: Lance T. Izumi, J.D.
8.10.1999
Not everything that comes out of Sacramento these days is terrible. The trouble is, for every good thing that occurs, there seem to be two or three horrible happenings. The last couple of weeks are a case in point.
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International Welfare
Capital Ideas
By: K. Lloyd Billingsley
8.3.1999
Recent employment notices show how principles can give way once people arrive in Washington. Haley Barbour, the former chairman of the Republican National Committee, was once a daily fixture on television but lately has dropped out of sight. He has now accepted a rather unusual position for someone once committed to smaller and more responsible government.
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Fighting Fire With Fire: How SDMI Saves Intellectual Property
ePolicy
By: Justin Matlick*
8.1.1999
The Secure Digital Music Initiative (SDMI) is steaming towards its goal of limiting online music piracy, and its progress suggests that solutions to the Internet's intellectual property problems are within reach. As the SDMI demonstrates, technology -- not government - holds the answers to the most vexing policy questions of the Information Age.
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