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...financially strapped states, required by law to balance their budget, have taken the ax to welfare. In the past year, about 40 states have reduced or frozen benefits, and many have tightened eligibility requirements. Among them, Michigan and Ohio have cut off all payments to 170,000 recipients of general assistance, which provides aid to impoverished single adults, and California Governor Pete Wilson has proposed to reduce AFDC payments as much...
Wishful thinking has been an immense factor in Rembrandt attribution. More than 1,000 paintings have been ascribed to Rembrandt, and they cannot all be by him. The reductionists' ax of the Rembrandt Research Project has fallen on paintings that no one with half an eye, after seeing this show, could go back to thinking of as Rembrandts: How did the light, high-colored, almost garish Feast of Esther by Jan Lievens, or the finicky execution of Gerrit Dou, ever get mistaken...
...other countries that still punish by death, the technology of execution is simpler. A handful favor the headsman's ax or the even more ancient practice of stoning to death. The rest employ either the rope or the bullet, both of which have fallen into near total disuse in the U.S. Outside the U.S., capital punishment in the 1990s is usually associated with underdevelopment or lack of democracy, usually both. The death penalty no longer exists in any European Community country. Most of the nations of the former Soviet bloc have abolished it, and the rest are considering doing...
Even by the brutal standards of the Middle East, it was a savage assault. As midnight approached, four Arab men stole into an Israeli army camp and, using a huge ax and several knives, hacked three soldiers to death. Assuming the killers were Palestinians from the occupied territories, Jews at first saw the attack as yet another terrorist engagement that fell within the unwritten rules of the region's slow-burn war. But then came the stunner: the alleged assailants, apprehended last month, were not aggrieved residents of the territories but citizens of Israel -- Arab citizens, "our Arabs," as Jewish...
...course, the whole group split up and performances on the next day's hourlies were far from stellar, but in the long run, the whole episode brought them all closer together. Unless they were randomized, that is. That guy screaming in Weld no doubt wanted to ax the roommate who put down Cabot in order to "just test the system...