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...white folks have a choice. We can keep pretending that welfare is a black program and a scheme for transferring our earnings to the pockets of shiftless, dark-skinned people. Or we can clear our throats, blush prettily and admit that we are hurting too -- for cash assistance when we're down and out, for health insurance, for college aid and all the rest...
...hang out" is now running a close second. It's hard to find a national consensus on confidentiality in a nation of tell- all memoirs, inquiring pollsters and talk shows -- not to mention televised Senate hearings -- whose participants air explicit sexual details that would have caused earlier generations to blush and turn away...
...clear rhetorical model, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Cuomo has not done anything creative--not for social programs, where his spending is generally generous but his innovations negligible, and not in taxing, where he's maintained the status quo. (His prison-building record could make Sen. Alfonse D'Amato (R-NY) blush, though.) He's called by friend and foe alike an "incrementalist"--not a true reformer...
...comes the mysterious phenomenon in NGC 6240. It was first spotted in 1986 by astronomers working with a University of Hawaii telescope, but they checked and rechecked their puzzling findings before finally publishing a report last week. At first blush, it looks temptingly revolutionary. The apparent object is invisible, detectable only by its gravitational pull on surrounding gases. Calculation pegs its mass at about 100 billion times the mass of the sun, or about as much as the entire Milky Way. Yet it is squeezed into a mere 3,000 light-years, only about one-thirtieth the diameter...
Adams also offers some of the best house-organized social events at Harvard. Aside from the traditional Winter Formal and Spring Waltz, Adams has yearly Halloween and Mardi Gras parties, complete with dancing which would make most people blush--until they learn how to do it. And every Tuesday the house committee sponsers Cafe Mardi, which offers, among other treats, sexpresso...