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...ones who cash the welfare checks, the reformers are targeting men as well in an attempt to break the pattern of irresponsible behavior on both sides. Clinton proposes that each welfare mother be required to give the name and location of her child's father before she can collect welfare. Men who fail to make payments will have their driver's licenses revoked. Massachusetts has made willful nonpayment a felony punishable by as much as a five-year term in prison. Maine's new welfare law, which threatens to take away the professional and driver's licenses of parents...
Rostenkowski, 66, the son of a Chicago alderman, always knew how to do favors and collect them, two priceless gifts when it comes to getting legislation passed. The 18-term Congressman is one of the last Preston Sturges / characters in the House, a man with the face of a football coach and the guttural laugh of a guy who knows and enjoys the ways of an old pol. Since becoming chairman in 1981 of Ways and Means, which writes most tax legislation, he has seen the word powerful appear before his name so often it must seem like part...
...Liberals collect stories about Wasinger. Julie R. Cooper '94, an editor of the liberal monthly Perspective who lived in Wasinger's Thayer Hall entryway in their first year, recalls that on the eve of the Persian Gulf War, Wasinger had a message board on the door to his room that read, "Give war a chance, we've tried peace long enough...
...about 25 minority students protest the lack of minority professors and slow progress in the creation of ethnic studies courses at Harvard. The students rally again the next day and collect more than 500 signatures on petitions in support of their cause...
...informed, savvy, opinionated comedy about real issues. Miller and Maher are helping stand-up comedy escape from its contemporary cul- de-sac, where Jerry Seinfeld clones obsess about sex, TV and life's little annoyances. These two comics read the whole newspaper -- not just the funny clippings their writers collect for them...