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...argue that these safety nets were federalized in the 1960s and '70s because states had failed to provide a floor of support for the neediest. Good intentions aside, the political realities in state capitols haven't changed much since. afdc benefit levels, which are set by the states, have fallen on average 47% in real terms since 1970. There's reason to fear that these trends would worsen if states had to foot the whole bill. Under today's system of federal matching grants, for example, Mississippi thinks twice about cutting a dollar from welfare because it then loses...
...first focus on the question of blocking. For the last month, bickering has been the priority. Classes have fallen behind in importance to this all-consuming issue. Friendships gain a new dimension of tension. People studiously avoid the topic that carries weight for the next three years of our lives. Tears flow freely. Friendships seem to go up in flames. The little white lies my mother swore by backfire dramatically. Being blunt is the only option; then havoc breaks loose. We have been reduced to eighth grad--people stop talking to each other, talk behind each other's backs, scheming...
...return to the same spot where two of its planes were gunned down by Cuban fighter jets last Saturday. Brothers founder Jose Basulto, who escaped Cuban jets in last Saturday's attack, says he is eager to go back to the area to say a prayer for his fallen comrades. Despite the volatility of the situation and the personal danger in returning to the site of Saturday's attack, Basulto insists that he will not back down, reports Drummond. "I am always concerned for my safety," he says. "But I am more concerned for my rights." Saturday's flotilla, initially...
...treat, for the film is fresh and beguiling. Seven-year-old Razieh (Aida Mohammakhani) is determined to buy a pretty white "dancing" goldfish she saw in a nearby shop. Reluctantly, her mother gives Razieh a 500-toman note, but the little girl loses the money. It has fallen into a sewer grate, tantalizingly out of reach. In dramatizing her efforts to get the money back, the film shows that no one can want anything as much as a child does. No one can be so desperate, endearing, selfish. Razieh is a maven of curb-level politics, a born haggler...
Europeans have a name for the state of economic-political affairs into which we have fallen, where all national decisions are dictated by private corporate monopolists to whom servile puppet government is beholden: the Europeans call it fascism. --Steven Wohl