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...Senate bill, having been emasculated by moderates, does not include provisions for either one of these two crucial reforms. The Senate bill grants states the discretion to enact such reforms on their own, but the past policies of states such as New York, whose generous benefits have encouraged only welfare dependency, provide little hope that the granting of such discretionary powers will lead to real change...
...update obscure Baroque works by putting them into contemporary settings, the more incongruous the better (or worse). At Glimmerglass, British director Jonathan Miller and set designer John Conklin play it sumptuously straight. On a richly lighted stage dominated by an enormous sliding screen of gold, extravagantly costumed singers enact the intrigues of the despot's court with the stylized poise and dignity of figures in 18th century European Orientalist paintings...
...such cutbacks will inflict on the poor and elderly. Yet the spectacle of serious advocacy on Capitol Hill for the disadvantaged may have distracted the press from the larger story behind conservatives' blitzkrieg attacks on American social programs. The Contract with America represents not merely a Republican effort to enact conservative ideology, but also a strategy to permanently entrench Republican majorities through a systematic effort to cripple political opposition...
...tourists were to descend with dollars and cameras? Would the Heisenberg gaze of strangers shame the ethnic purifiers and spoil the snipers' aim? Would commercialism defeat tribalism? Or maybe Disney could take over the war and give the fighters blanks and dummy mortar shells to fire: they would enact their hatreds daily as a permanent tourist attraction...
With the blessings of House Speaker Newt Gingrich and other leading Republican conservatives, the Christian Coalition unveiled its "Contract with the American Family," a 10-point social and political program that the group wants Congress to enact. Among its controversial provisions: a constitutional amendment allowing prayer in schools and other public places, new limits on abortions, restrictions on computer and cable-TV access to sexually explicit materials and the abolition of federal aid for the arts...