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Ohio officials admit the pot is too big, given that the number of Ohioans living in poverty rose 17% from 2000 to 2004 and some 83,000 families are on welfare. They blame the gap on accounting errors and on counties that they say failed to put TANF-eligible programs into place. "We are making aggressive efforts to get more money into the hands of the working poor," says Barbara Riley, director of Ohio's Department of Job and Family Services. The state will use $75 million to help heat the homes of low-income Ohioans. And poor households just...
...allow the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on phone conversations in the U.S. without a court-ordered warrant [Jan. 9]. Extraordinary times call for extraordinary measures. Those who are up in arms about the secret spying on people with known links to al-Qaeda would be the first to blame the President for not preventing another attack. I am not an apologist for Bush, but he did get this one right. Terrorists need to know they can't use our eavesdropping laws against us. The President took an oath to protect the American people, and I am glad...
...studied hard, I studied well, and I studied early. Tom Cruise would say that I just don’t have the will power to control my affliction, but that’s not true. I do, of course I do. I am a Harvard student! So the blame must lie elsewhere. As with all problems on campus, we students know that the true culpability does not rest on our shoulders, but on those of Harvard’s administrators who put innumerable barriers on our path to success. From funding only the second biggest library in the world...
...every politician in the country. You agree on some things and you disagree on others, but you work out the differences with dialogue and respect for each other. That is the way things are supposed to be. What an amazing concept! Doug Weaver Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. Praise and Blame Joe Klein's column "It's Time To Pin A Few Medals," in which he pays "homage to those who have taken risky stands on principle" even when he has disagreed with them, left me feeling as if I were living in an alternate universe [Dec. 26?Jan. 2]. Klein...
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