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...vote--as he has throughout his career. His aides look forward to a game of "Who's the Real Phony?" with the President, who is, after all, a graduate of Yale, and Harvard, a member of Skull and Bones, a lifetime beneficiary of connections from a family far more affluent than Kerry's. And all this from a fellow who would have you believe that he's a plain ole country boy from Texas. Unlike Dukakis or Gore, Kerry is not averse to playing rough. He is not a particularly inspiring or compelling candidate, but he will be a very...
Fawzi said that the grant will allow him to provide ART to more people in Tanzania than ever before. He said such medication had been available only to the affluent through private pharmacies until...
...Kedadouche. "France is broken." Consider these signs of fracture: unemployment in the banlieue often runs at more than double the national level of 9.7%, and the jobless rate among banlieue youths with a college or vocational diploma is four times higher than it is among those from more affluent areas. Resignation and hopelessness have sent criminal activity and incivility soaring, and the banlieues' physical isolation makes them islands of anger, apathy and pain. "I've seen guys turn to fundamentalist Islam as the only positive, redeeming option available," reports Cazenave. "Some women start wearing a veil just to get their...
Shipler's solutions are the expected ones--a higher minimum wage, better job training, medical coverage for the almost 44 million who have none. Will any of it happen? The working poor don't vote in anything like the numbers of their more affluent neighbors, so even in election years they carry no real weight. But the economic boom of the '90s is behind us, job creation is feeble, and the time limits on welfare are kicking in. Expect those dominoes to start falling faster than ever...
Many of you won’t do those things simply because you’ll be spending too much time chasing money rather than fascinations. How odd that this has come to pass, given that America is now a far more affluent place than when I was your age. One of the many reasons it has is that college and graduate education has become so expensive. There’s been a steady run-up in tuition over the past four decades, not just at Harvard. Unless you’re rich or near-rich, paying for college...