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...send it instead to any private group that spends 70% of its funds on the poor. "We're going to deliver $95.9 billion dollars [to individual charities] over five years," he predicts. His plan has the support of Olasky and progressive Republicans such as former Education Secretary William Bennett, who helped draft...
...UNTIL NOW, THE TARGETS OF BILL (THE BOOK OF Virtues) Bennett's crusades have at least been plausible sources of evil. But the latest victim of his wrath--TV talk shows of the Sally Jessy Raphael variety--are in a whole different category from drugs and gangsta rap. As anyone who actually watches them knows, the talk shows are one of the most excruciatingly moralistic forums the culture has to offer. Disturbing and sometimes disgusting, yes, but their very business is to preach the middle-class virtues of responsibility, reason and self-control...
...FOURTH NOVEL Oscar Hijuelos, author of The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, has produced the sort of book that might offer William Bennett hope for America's cultural future. Mr. Ives' Christmas (HarperCollins; 248 pages; $23) is an homage to religious piety, unfailing modesty and moral rectitude. At the novel's center is Ives, a man who overcame his foundling-home beginnings to become a successful Manhattan illustrator and advertising executive. Despite his position, Ives lives a life devoid of bourgeois affectation. He gives to the poor, lusts for no one but his wife and refuses to judge those...
That's because Alma's lie-detection skills extend to Washington at large. "In a town where people race around answering every bell because they're terrified they might miss their big chance, Alma answers only the bells she chooses," says her friend Elayne Bennett, the wife of former Education Secretary William Bennett. "There's nothing she's after here." (Not that she is idle: without fanfare, she sits on the Kennedy Center board, makes sandwiches at a Washington soup kitchen, and finds time for the Red Cross, CARE and Best Friends, Elayne Bennett's program for inner-city girls...
...will be replaced by a Republican, so it won't be a net loss for the GOP. But she will be missed." Kassebaum, who is chairman of the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, joins fellow GOP senator Hank Brown and Democrats Bill Bradley, James Exon, Howell Helflin, Bennett Johnston, Sam Nunn, Claiborne Pell, David Pryor and Paul Simon in leaving the Senate after the 1996 elections. Kassebaum, 63, says she intends to devote herself to her family and adds that she is not interested in coming back to Washington in any capacity...