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Besides Coles, the speakers included Kennedy School Professor Mary Jo Bane and author Alex Kotzlowitz...
...Bane, who was the final speaker, urged the public to reexamine organizations such as welfare and recognize the important role they play in addressing inner-city problems...
...base station linked by satellite to the firm's headquarters. The systems will be available in 25 major cities by the end of this year. While the concept may be a boon for exhausted nine-to-fivers too weary to dial Domino's, it may be a bane for parents of the always hungry twelvesomething...
...Symbolic Military Keynesianism" at its best. In traditional Keynesian economics--long the bane of Republicans--the federal government "primes the pump" of the domestic economy by increasing spending on unemployment benefits, jobs programs and the like. In military Keynesianism, the government primes the pump by building a massive military program--trading the efficiency of jobs programs for the enticement of military might...
Inevitably, rivalries and antipathies developed during the hard, long months of confinement. Sutherland's recollections of British church envoy Terry Waite, for instance, are particularly sharp. Calling Waite the "bane of our existence," Sutherland told TIME that when the large Waite moved, "it was like a goddam herd of elephants." When Waite joined Sutherland, Anderson and others after enduring four years of solitary, he understandably hungered for companionship -- but he had a hard time adapting to the courtesies of a shared cell. "Other hostages had a sense of when people needed privacy and didn't want to talk," Sutherland said...