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Also, as long as I'm on parochial issues, it is freezing cold here, and the radiators in my apartment are making those knocking and whispering noises that make all prewar buildings in Manhattan seem like they were built on Native American graveyards.
(This may not be the least enticing headline of the day, but it is certainly the most parochial.)
Another, perhaps less parochial, way to look at Global 2000 is to observe that the millennium is proving to be about 50 percent as disastrous as Jimmy Carter predicted it would be.
Minority children are indeed accepted at private schools, but even though "they can afford the steep tuition," their parents "often choose other options, including parochial schools and a move to the suburbs" where the public schools "have a better reputation."
Emphasizing the global realities of overexpansion thus becomes a way for the Big Three to serve their own interests without seeming parochial.