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Besides freeing the country from the grip of the Tontons Macoutes, Aristide has pledged to wage war on corruption and bring openness to government. But to succeed he will have to enlist the help of the very groups he has alienated, including the church, businessmen and the upper classes. Since his party failed to win a majority in the 110-seat parliament, he may also have to learn the art of democratic compromise. Last week Aristide hinted at the possibility of forming a government of "patriotic union" that would include some of his former opponents...
...absence of leadership from Washington, local governments and private groups have spent countless millions of hours and dollars on this problem. Because the homeless population varies so greatly from city to city, community groups often devise the most ingenious solutions -- especially when they can enlist the help of corporations, banks and local government. In New York, America Works trains welfare recipients for jobs and pays their salaries for the first four months; if the employer is satisfied and hires a worker permanently (usually about 70% of trainees make it), America Works collects a $5,000 fee from the state. Employers...
...relationships with compulsive people, develop emotional response patterns like those of spouses and offspring of alcoholics, and that these learned but unconscious behaviors shape their future relationships and lives. This insight is not foreign to traditional psychotherapy. But unlike traditionalists, believers in codependence -- and the Anonymous philosophy -- enlist a democratic and emotional revivalism to uncover an individual's secrets. This populist alternative rejects the relationship between the weak patient and the superior, distant doctor or therapist. "We're talking about a group of people like myself who bottomed out so badly that we didn't have the time to waste...
...then did you fight so hard, and enlist the U.S., to keep South Vietnam sovereign...
...prodigality leaves environmentalists seething about the direct-mail bombardment, which consumes millions of trees each year. Conservationists also fume that the discards amount to 3% of the total clutter in the nation's landfills. And just how do they try to enlist public support? By mail, of course. The environmental watchdog organization Greenpeace USA sends more than 25 million pieces annually. Earlier this year the Environmental Defense Fund put out a direct-mail fund raiser (on recycled paper) that offered, in exchange for membership, a copy of the best-selling 50 Simple Things You Can + Do to Save the Earth...