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...Basically, you could spend 10 years going to school part-time, maybe talking one course a semester at night-time working toward a degree in basket weaving, and still demand taxpayer support full time all the way," Weld said to the Boston Globe...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Wilson Challenges Weld on Welfare | 7/28/1995 | See Source »

...Basket weaving? God. This is nothing more than histrionics," Bosley, the state representative said. "All the statistics show that people are much more prone to staying off welfare if they have higher education...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Wilson Challenges Weld on Welfare | 7/28/1995 | See Source »

Carter was a backup power forward whose talent for the game was matched only by his ability to speak Swahili. His principal contribution to the men's basketball team consisted of assaulting opposing players near the basket. I stand by the moniker. But Carter's friends found the phrase hilarious, and all day they greeted Carter with "Hey, how's it going, Human Foul?" and "Yo Foul! What...

Author: By John B. Trainer, | Title: A Final Look | 6/8/1995 | See Source »

...dead turkey seems in mourning for itself, painted mostly in black, its pink head-the sole patch of bright color-propped up against a dark brown basket that is painted with utter virtuosity, one stroke for every crescent of wicker. To see such passages (others are the lacy scribbles of wet black paint that define the soft body feathers) is to realize why Goya's ability to summon up a single form with a single gesture, fusing the brush mark to the form depicted, was such an inspiration to Edouard Manet half a century later. The stiffness of death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ART: FOOD FOR THOUGHT | 5/22/1995 | See Source »

...members of the group are scientists. Tom Bethell, the Washington correspondent for the American Spectator, a conservative political publication, says people "should be willing to entertain theories other than HIV. They have placed all their eggs in one basket...

Author: By Jennifer M. Kalish, | Title: Reappraising AIDS? | 5/3/1995 | See Source »

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