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...might be argued that former Vermont Governor Howard Dean also passed the Bennett test, but he only did so under duress. He was asked about a quote from 1996, in which he heaped slag upon the Children's Defense Fund's founder, Marian Wright Edelman, for being one of those "liberals" who wrongly opposed the welfare-reform bill. He retracted the slag--Edelman, a study in demure imperiousness, was seated in the front row--but not the sentiment. He said he embraced welfare reform in Vermont and implied that he did it better than Clinton. But then, to hear Dean...
...might be argued that former Vermont Governor Howard Dean also passed the Bennett test, but he only did so under duress. He was asked about a quote from 1996, in which he heaped slag upon the Children's Defense Fund's founder, Marian Wright Edelman, for being one of those "liberals" who wrongly opposed the welfare-reform bill. He retracted the slag - Edelman, a study in demure imperiousness, was seated in the front row - but not the sentiment. He said he embraced welfare reform in Vermont and implied that he did it better than Clinton. But then, to hear Dean...
...problem of trafficking," says Claude Boucher, director of the Friends of the Women's Bus, an association that acts as an intermediary between prostitutes and social services. "Over 90% of the girls in Paris are controlled by Mafia pimps, but no one's going to denounce their traffickers under duress with handcuffs on." French police don't appear to be under any such illusion. "We're not going to bust pimps by arresting prostitutes," says Dominique Achispon, assistant general secretary of the National Union of Police Officers. "It's very hard for a prostitute to say who she works...
...They come in under duress," says Josephs, a psychology professor at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. "But they don't commit. What they really want is to have everything on their own terms...
...expansion efforts should make more of these coveted positions available in the future. Although it may be relatively easy to acquire a teaching job on one’s own, Teach For America puts together a package that advertises selectivity, quality and extreme emotional and mental duress. There’s some evidence that Harvard students like that sort of thing...