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Zoom’s Acceleration Isn’t Slowed by Red Tape0
- Economics
- March 31, 2020
Founder and current CEO emeritus of Visa, Inc., Dee Hock once said, “From no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things.” Yet in the fight against COVID-19, many “ordinary people” have been blocked from doing “extraordinary things.” Due to government regulations, too few people have been
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Five Things Americans Should Know About South Korea’s Handling of Coronavirus0
- Culture
- March 30, 2020
This week in South Korea, a 97-year-old woman – well into the age group most susceptible to the coronavirus – fully recovered from COVID-19. This was one more victory for South Korea, a U.S. ally that is viewed as a success story to the world in combating the coronavirus pandemic. The small country of South
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Plague Humor Is Good for You0
- Culture
- March 30, 2020
My older sister took great pleasure in telling a younger-me the dark history behind the nursery rhyme, “Ring-around-the-Rosies.” She told me that the cheerful tune was written about the Black Death: the “pocket full of posies,” refers to small bouquets of sweet-smelling herbs the healthy would carry close to their noses in order to protect
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Teaching Humane Literature in High Schools0
- Culture
- March 30, 2020
In many American high schools, the teaching of literature is in the sere and yellow leaf. One reason for this decay is the unsatisfactory quality of many programs of reading; another is the limited knowledge of humane letters possessed by some well-intentioned teachers, uncertain of what books they ought to select for their students to
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Stimulus Goodies, Good Souls, and Grifters0
- Culture
- March 30, 2020
On March 29, I spoke with a loan agent for a bank in a medium-sized city who wishes to remain anonymous. Her desire for anonymity will become clear after you read what she told me. Her bank, like many others, often works with the Small Business Administration (SBA) in making loans. The SBA guarantees a
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School’s Out Forever?0
- Education
- March 30, 2020
With just about every public school in the country closed at this time, the only way for kids to get an education is at home. Many see this as nothing less than tragic. Writing in Education Week, Stephen Sawchuk claims that schools are an “absolute necessity for the functioning of civic culture, and even more
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