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...summer checking off all 174, actually, make that 173 items on The List: Mom let me unpack the athletic supporter after we received the third edition of The List, which made distinctions between male and female items. Only on the day of my departure, when we made a mad dash to CVS for anti-fungal powder, did she sit back, relax a little and begin to let her daughter...
...peace makers" on both sides ever stop in their headlong idealistic dash to consider the impossibility of confiscating the Palestinians' weapons, should that need ever have arisen? In the wake of the latest events, this appears to be an increasingly likely and favorable option. Such an effort, however, would be tremendously complicated by the proliferation of weapons which has resulted from the shortsighted Oslo plan. I, for one, find it difficult to picture 40,000 Palestinian policemen meekly handing over their assault rifles for any reason whatsoever. How many lives would be lost in the war that would result from...
...debate over welfare reform has divided Americans between those who consider recipients to be hapless victims and those who see them as shiftless parasites. Washington Post reporter Leon Dash's Rosa Lee: A Mother and Her Family in Urban America (HarperCollins; 279 pages; $23) gives both sides powerful evidence to support their position. It will also leave fair-minded readers in both camps equally discomfited...
Based on a 1994 series that won Dash the Pulitzer Prize, Rosa Lee is an unflinching portrait of underclass pathology in Washington's ghetto. The protagonist, Rosa Lee Cunningham, was a 57-year-old chronic welfare recipient, petty thief, drug addict and prostitute who died from aids earlier this year. Her worst failing may have been passing along her self-destructive traits to most of her offspring; she was even capable of recruiting one of her daughters into prostitution at age 11. Of her eight children by six different fathers, only two managed to escape to the mainstream world, through...
Unlike such other recent works on the underclass conundrum as William Julius Wilson's When Work Disappears, Rosa Lee proffers neither theories nor proposals. Instead, Dash allows Cunningham's life story to speak for itself in all its depressing complexity. Cunningham's case was extreme even by the standards of the underclass, but it speaks volumes about the devastating combination of circumstance and personal flaws that condemns them to misery. By refusing to be judgmental, Dash illuminates the simplistic limitations on the far ends of the welfare debate. It is a problem, he strongly implies, for which neither side...