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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 15:04:01 EST
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- Subject: Clintons, choice, public & private lives
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- Robert Bellah and colleagues (Habits of the Heart--add it to your list, Bob!)
- discuss the almost irreconcilable disjunction of private and public lives.
- Whatever we think of Bill and Hillary's (and Chelsea's decision, for that
- matter), those of us who "support" public education are disturbed not so much
- by the choice, but by how close to home--how familiar in our own lives--this
- disjunction is. Perhaps we are shocked that even the President cannot escape.
- John Wong illuminates the problem well. Jane Lindle points out quite cor-
- rectly, moreover, that we all have choices: and really, America is a land of
- choices. A colleague from Mainland China finds selecting a jar of mustard
- at the supermarket very difficult. But when it comes to cars, housing, and
- schooling, it's not choice so much as what another colleague calls "fiscal
- free will." Not many of us can cut the mustard of fiscal free will.
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