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...very confident," Wise says from his firm's small suite of offices in this affluent suburb. "1990 is going to be the inflection point for us, when this really takes...
...oversimplistic to attribute too much influence to a single TV ad in a media-glutted statewide campaign. But the abortion issue was framed in a way that allowed Wilder to make inroads among racially tolerant, upscale voters who might be tempted to vote Republican on economic grounds. In affluent northern Virginia, Wilder ran a crucial two percentage points ahead of his 1985 showing. "Abortion is the symbolic issue for a tremendous life-style change," says Goldman. "And so is voting for Doug Wilder...
Schools, of course, cannot be isolated from neighborhoods plagued by drugs, gangs, crime and poverty. Says Miller, the teacher who faced a kindergartner's gun: "Whatever is out on the street seeps into the schools." Violence, however, is no longer confined to tough areas. In an affluent part of Tallahassee last month, one janitor shot another to death in front of about 100 grade schoolers. Last year in posh Winnetka, Ill., a woman opened fire in an elementary classroom, killing an eight-year-old. Other recent school slayings have occurred in middle-class areas of Greenwood, S.C.; Largo, Fla.; Little...
...problem of crack abuse among the affluent is especially disturbing because it comes at a time when the middle class seemed to be weaning itself from recreational drugs. Between 1985 and 1988, the number of casual drug users in the U.S. dropped from 23 million to 14.5 million, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. But according to another federal study, the number of Americans using crack cocaine at least once a week increased by one- third during that period, from under 650,000 to more than 860,000. "The poor people in the ghetto aren't buying...
Having bought their way into addiction, affluent users often try to buy their way out. They can pick and choose from a long menu of treatments, from acupuncture to cocaine-blocking medications like imipramine and desipramine, but there are no quick fixes. In the end, all crack addicts, rich or poor, must put themselves back on their own feet -- a slow process that calls for professional counseling, steady support from family and friends, fearless self-examination and not a little pain...