Reading and understanding newspapers. Пыж А.М. - 45 стр.

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on about Philippine rice farmers and rubber prices as if that had anything to do
with tapioca.
Take a look also at Montri Pongpanich whose main enthusiasm at the
Agriculture Ministry is to invent new ways for the ministry to buy and sell
fertiliser and seeds, build dams and dig waterways, preferably at “top speed”
and
beyond public scrutiny—just as he did in a previous incarnation with the
Hopewell elevated road and rail project. Are the stock speculators interested?
Only if one of the favoured companies is listed.
Look outside economics. The Public Health Minister has done nothing to
justify his claim to the Interior portfolio. Far from showing that he has the
welfare of the public at heart, the Ministers merely succeeded in antagonizing
doctors all over the country. And then there's Deputy Prime Minister whose
preferred solution to traffic problems is to offer policemen
quasi-bribes from
his own ample pocket. And there's the former warrior for democracy, Defence
Minister, who now finds free speech inconvenient. And so on.
By comparison, Dr Surakiart looks like a good minister. Or put it another
way, if he goes, so should all the rest.
Now read the editorial that follows and do the after reading tasks.
Where Have Our Values Gone?
By Mortimer B Zuckerman, editor-in-chief. U.S. News and World report,
August 8, 1994, with the permission of the editors.
The fraying of America’s social fabric is becoming a national
obsession. Three out of every four Americans think we are in moral and
spiritual decline. Two out of three think the country is seriously off track.
Doubts about the president’s character have driven his standing in the polls
down about 15 points. Social dysfunction haunts the land: crime and drug
abuse, the break-up of the family, the slump in academic performance, the
disfigurement of public places by druggies, thugs and exhibitionists. Are we
now, to use Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s phrase, “defining deviancy
down,” accepting as part of life what we once found repugnant?
We certainly seem to have lost the balance between societal rights and
individual freedoms. There are daily confrontations with almost everyone in
authority: blacks against the white power structure, women against
patriarchy, feminists against feminism, gays against homophobia, children
against parents, mothers against matrimony, fathers against child support,
churchgoers against the church, students against universities. Instead of a
culture of common good, we have a culture of constant complaint. Everyone

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